title: Debugging Annotation processors in eclipse
body: <p>I am writing a simple annotation processor and trying to debug it using eclipse. I created a new project for annotation processor and configured javax.annotation.processing.Processor under META-INF as needed and it processes annotations fine.</p>
  
  <p>Then, I added some more code and tried debugging, but could never make the execution stop at the breakpoints added in the annotation processor. I am compiling using ant and I am using the following ANT options.</p>
  
  <p>export ANT_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=8000"</p>
  
  <p>After triggering ant build, i go create a remote debug configuration and the debugger starts fine. Ant build also starts successfully. But the execution never stops at any break point added in the annotation processor.</p>