Puuuh. Its me again. I am gone the hard route and created my own variant of AnnotationProcesso:
@Override public boolean process(Set<? extends TypeElement> annos, RoundEnvironment roundEnv) { if (active && !roundEnv.processingOver()) { Set<? extends Element> elements = roundEnv.getRootElements(); for (Element e : elements) { try { System.out.println("Element inside Set --> "+ e); process((TypeElement) e); } catch (RuntimeException e1) { System.out.println("Error -->"+ e); } } } return true; } with more logging and something strange can be seen: ... [javac] Element inside Set --> de.netversys.carriers.tourline.process.TourlineRoutingBarcode [javac] Element inside Set --> de.netversys.carriers.tourline.process.TourlineSenderBarcode [javac] Element inside Set --> de.netversys.carriers.bartolini.domain.xml [javac] Error -->de.netversys.carriers.bartolini.domain.xml The "-->" lines is the output before the process() call in the for loop which i coded in there. The last line is interessting. This is not a class, this is a package! (with JAXB generated stuff in it) Now the error message java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$PackageSymbol cannot be cast to javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement makes sense because he says something about PackageSymbol. Now more questions comes up than it solves. Why is this package inside the Element Set ?? Its a normal package under one of my domain packages. But inside this package, there are only JAXB generated classes. Perhaps JAXB generated classe with its ObjectFactory stuff is handled differently by the JDK Annotation framework. But i have other places with JAXB stuff in it. Cant be the issue. With my program, i get a result of course because i dont leave the process on error ;-) But this is the solution. still a bit clueless -- regards Marc Logemann http://www.logemann.org http://www.logentis.de Am 23.03.2011 um 15:51 schrieb Rick Curtis: > Marc - > > Can you narrow down the Entity which is having the problem so we can write a > unit test? > > Thanks, > Rick