For people looking for an example solution, this is what we ended up doing
in Hibernate projects after we had shared these pain points in February:
add an explicit dependency to the Maven artifact
`javax.annotation:jsr250-api:1.0`.
We use an explicit phase for running annotation processors via the
> If you are in a hacky mood, there is a simple solution to transform an
automatic module to an explicit one,
> create a module-info.java, compile it and update the jar of the automatic
module with the module-info.class
I'm working on a Maven plug-in, ModiTect, which largely automates that
task. E
