Lombok with maven at Openshift (Jboss AS) build fails

Question

I started using Lombok in my project and all is working well in my local environment (maven compile is working). When I try to pusth to openshift (Jboss installation) maven compile in openshift fails with errors:

[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ german-school ---
[INFO] Compiling 13 source files to /var/lib/openshift/5290ebf4500446c6e20000b8/app-root/runtime/repo/target/classes
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] /var/lib/openshift/5290ebf4500446c6e20000b8/app-root/runtime/repo/src/main/java/gr/alx/german/model/Word.java:[95,26] error: cannot find symbol
[ERROR]  class Word /var/lib/openshift/5290ebf4500446c6e20000b8/app-root/runtime/repo/src/main/java/gr/alx/german/model/Word.java:[102,18] error: cannot find symbol
[ERROR]  variable shuffledWord of type Word /var/lib/openshift/5290ebf4500446c6e20000b8/app-root/runtime/repo/src/main/java/gr/alx/german/model/Word.java:[114,19] error: cannot find symbol
[ERROR]  variable shuffledWord of type Word /var/lib/openshift/5290ebf4500446c6e20000b8/app-root/runtime/repo/src/main/java/gr/alx/german/controller/AdminController.java:[70,18] error: cannot find symbol
[ERROR]  class Word
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[INFO] 33 errors 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE

I am not showing every error for clarity. The class 'Word' is a class annotated with Lombok annotations. Maven seems to be unable to find the class at all.

I should note that I am using java 7.

Answer 1

I got the same problem. It was something to do with an older version of the maven compile plugin.

To fix it change your plugins version to specifically request maven compile 2.5.1 (or higher)

here's the important part of my maven pom.xml

<profiles>
    <profile>
     <!-- When built in OpenShift the 'openshift' profile will be used when invoking mvn. -->
     <!-- Use this profile for any OpenShift specific customization your app will need. -->
     <!-- By default that is to put the resulting archive into the 'deployments' folder. -->
     <!-- http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-building-for-different-environments.html -->
     <id>openshift</id>
     <build>
        <finalName>myname</finalName>
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <configuration>
                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                    <outputDirectory>deployments</outputDirectory>
                      <warName>ROOT</warName>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
             <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.5.1</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
      </build>
    </profile>
  </profiles>

NOTE: maven-compiler-plugin - version 2.5.1