JDK8 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/tools/javac/code/TypeTags

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JDK8 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/tools/javac/code/TypeTags

By TY → Sunday, October 11, 2015

Java build fail after update to jdk8 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/tools/javac/code/TypeTags

Some projects continue to build successfully while some others failed after upgrading JDK.
Looking deeper into it and comparing the projects, those that failed are projects that are using lombok. It has been a while since I have upgraded lombok version. (which was still at 0.XXX)

After downloading the latest version of lombok and rebuild, the build completes successfully!

Unable to build in intellij idea when using lombok

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Unable to build in intellij idea when using lombok

By TY →

When using lombok with intellij, there is a great lombok plugin that enable Intellij to pick up the getter setter methods within the editor. However, when trying to build within Intellij, the build will fail.

To solve this, we only need to configure Intellij to process the annotations.

Go to Settings and type in "Enable annotation processing" in the search field and click "Annotation Processors" in the result.

Then just check "Enable annotation processing"

Reference : 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9424364/cant-compile-project-when-im-using-lombok-under-intellij-idea