Discussion: Eclipse IDE Java projects + external annotations

[triller-telekom]

I am opening this issue as a discussion on how one could implement support for projects of type "Java project" within the Eclipse IDE.

As briefly mentioned in #52 (comment) the plugin eclipse-external-annotations-m2e-plugin is only for "Maven projects" within the Eclipse IDE.

Since the Eclipse JDT compiler is able to read the external annotations via its special "-annotationpath CLASSPATH" if you run it on the console, I am wondering how the eclipse-external-annotations-m2e-plugin makes use of it.

The GUI of the Eclipse IDE itself does not allow inserting "CLASSPATH" as a value in the projects build path on where it can find the external annotations.

So I am wondering if anyone has an idea on how to tell the jdt compiler within the IDE to read its external annotations fro the CLASSPATH?