Just keep in mind that everytime you do code generation IDEs that need to compile classes to operate (like Eclipse or Idea) choke big time.
Haven't had this experience. All the time things got out-of-date I ran an Ant script to exec xdoclet. Eclipse saw the 'gensrc' as a source dir and compiled everything without choking.
We did the same thing in our last project (the ConWeb project) using Netbeans, for MBeans, for the CMP layer and some session beans.
But this gets pretty hairy with CVS and a distributed workgroup, believe me.
We also had no problems with it. As Hamilton said you just must not commit generated code, but I think that's obvious. Do you have something else in mind? What does "distributed workgroup" change on the issue?
Joerg
