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What and why .apt_generated folder is created inside the Web Project within Eclipse or RAD workspace?

Mike
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It's for holding code generated by annotation processors.

Laurence Gonsalves
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  • Thanks Laurence. Does that mean this folder is auto generated only for projects using annotations? – user1195192 Mar 07 '12 at 03:49
  • That I do not know, but I suspect it may be true as none of my Eclipse projects contain this folder. – Laurence Gonsalves Mar 07 '12 at 03:55
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    This isn't necessarily needed for Annotations themselves. This folder is created if and only if you have "Annotation Processing" enabled on the project. See Project Properties > Java Compiler > Annotation Processing. You can probably disable it if you have no classes implementing com.sun.mirror.apt.AnnotationProcessor. – Martin Feb 20 '13 at 02:01
  • I don't have "Annotation Processing" enabled, try to remove it, from the Build Path, from the project, but then it is again generated automatically. I do not use Annotations either – Weslor Oct 30 '15 at 10:20