Strange Eclipse IDE error javax.annotation.meta.When #Java - java

I get the following IDE error which appears inline or on the package declaration of my classes, but doesn't prevent the code running or working as expected.
I tried manually downloading the javax-annotations.jar from Glassfish and placing that in both the classpath and also on the JDK external JAR resources areas, no help.
The type javax.annotation.meta.When cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class file.
The error appears anywhere that I use the Findbugs #NonNull annotations; any class which uses this annotation has the above message appear in the IDE on the package declaration line. The class however appears as error-free from the Package-Explorer or Navigator view.
I would quite happily ignore this, however it breaks the Mark-All-Occurences behaviour which I quite like, if anyone has any ideas on what I might have missed I would appreciate it!

The FindBugs jar already contains a jsr-305.jar, which contains an implementation of JSR-305.
More info in this previous question.
Edit Oh, you already did that--I didn't even know it was in annotations.jar as well.

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warning: No processor claimed any of these annotations: javax.annotation.Generated

I'm working on a module project in NetBeans 8.2, with a GUI and everything. I'm using lots of the IDE functionality to auto-generate code for the GUI.
Every time I do a clean build of my project, I get a warning from the compiler:
warning: No processor claimed any of these annotations:javax.annotation.Generated
Browsing the build directory, I see that the IDE generates a class for me, Bundle.java, and it slaps the given annotation on top of it:
#javax.annotation.Generated(value="org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.NbBundleProcessor")
I need this warning to go away. I tried searching the web for an annotation processor that processes this specific annotation but I had no luck. Does an annotation processor for this specific annotation exist?
If this is a "harmless warning," I need to understand why it is harmless to justify its existence in my build output.
If needed I can include in this question the argument to the -processorpath option that is passed to javac from the IDE; I didn't include it on purpose because it is very long but I can add it if necessary
EDIT #1:
I did a "hacky" modification to the common.xml file under the NetBeans installation directory to make the invocation to javac not include the -processorpath option, and doing so makes the warning dissapear. I still do not understand why that is the case
A simple fix for this is to remove the #Messages annotation from the TopComponent class that is generated by the NetBeans code generator. It is that annotation that is responsible for generating the Bundle class, as per the NbBundle.Messages API Documentation.
As soon as you remove that annotation, you might get warnings from other annotations that rely on the contents of the #Messages annotation (i.e. TopComponent.OpenActionRegistration), so make sure to modify the contents of those annotation as well until nothing in your code depends on that Bundle anymore.
Hopefully nothing else in your code relies on your Bundle.

Javadoc warning - bad source file: file does not contain class com.example.MyClass

I have a file called MyFile.java and it contains multiple classes(none of them is public). Note that the file does not contain MyFile class. Apparently Javadoc is not happy about this and it generates a warning saying file does not contain class com.example.MyClass. A few solutions I looked into:
Move classes into their own files. This looks like the proper way of fixing the warnings, but the new files won't obliviously have the source control history, so I am trying to avoid it.
Create empty MyFile class. This is ugly.
Hide Javadoc warnings, preferably per file. There is a high chance that this is not possible.
A few questions that I have:
Why does Javadoc complain? I couldn't find any documentation, please point me to one. I think it is perfectly fine not to have a class with the same name as the file.
Any other suggestions I can look into?
Is it possible to hide warnings somehow? additionalparam="-Xdoclint:none" does not work.
Thank you all in advance
When building with maven from the command line, I encountered this error from maven-javadoc-plugin.
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin:3.2.0:jar (default) on project code-mapping-database: MavenReportException: Error while generating Javadoc:
... error: cannot access DataSourceWrapper
Eclipse IDE reported a similar error.
This occurred after I had copied DataSourceWrapper.java to another (dependent) project and commented out all lines of DataSourceWrapper.java in the original project. After deleting the commented out version, the error went away. The effectively empty DataSourceWrapper.java file must have caused maven-javadoc-plugin to stop looking for class DataSourceWrapper.

Creating Java Packages in IntelliJ

I've been using Eclipse for a while and I'm having trouble understanding what's going on with my first project in IntelliJ. I've read the documentation, and searched other questions, but I still can't seem to grasp it. I think there is something wrong with my project structure. This is what my structure currently looks like;
I'm trying to run the JavaForLoop class, but whenever I do, compilation fails because I have errors in the StringMethods class of the strings package. My question is why would that prevent compilation if the two classes are in separate packages? Neither class uses the other, and they both have the appropriate package declaration statements. With a similar structure in Eclipse, this would work. Should I be using a different project structure?
By default IDEA adds Build Configuration which is executed before launch and includes following steps (taken from here):
Compiling source code in the source path of a module and placing results to the output path.
Compiling source code in the test path of a module and placing results to the test output path.
Creating copies of the resource files in the output path.
Reporting problems in the Messages tool window.
check if it's your case in Edit Configuration screen and if so, remove it.
To use a class from a different package you must declare a import statement to the class.
In your JavaForLoop.java add the import before the class statement (and after package declaration where its the case)
//package ...
import strings.StringMethods;
//public class JavaForLoop { and the rest of the code
Intellij uses regular javac, which will fail to compile if you have errors anywhere in the code.
Eclipse has it's own compiler, that allows to compile and even run code that has compilation errors, causing a runtime exception if any part of the code that has errors is run. This allows you to run parts of the code that work even if other pieces of code are failing.
The simple solution is to resolve your compilation errors. You can also use the eclipse compiler with Intellij, but I've never done this so I can't comment on how well it works.

GWT super-source gives unable to resolve class java/lang/Object in development mode

I am trying to emulate some java.lang and java.io classes, e.g. OutputStream within GWT.
I have created a "super" package in my module and referenced it using super-source.
My package structure looks like
com/example/gwt/client
com/example/gwt/server
com/example/gwt/shared
com/example/gwt/super
com/example/gwt/super/java/io/OutputStream.java
com/example/gwt/mymodule.get.xml
and mymodule.xml contains an entry
<super-source path="super" />
Within Eclipse all of the files within the super folder are in error - to be expected because the package structure is wrong. .class files are being generated in the WEB-INF/classes folder, again with the "wrong" package structure so should be ignored.
When I run my application in development mode I get lots of
unable to resolve class java/lang/Object
errors. What am I doing wrong?
Rename ....get.xml to ....gwt.xml?
You can exclude "super" from the eclipse build path.
Try right-clicking or the build path menu exclusion options..
There was nothing wrong with the approach - just the execution.
I had compile errors in the emulated classes which were being masked by the fact that Eclipse was showing errors because of the "incorrect" package structure. Running the compiler from within Eclipse flushed these out.
It also seems that deleting the gwt-unitCache might have helped. As I was moving code around it seems that there were stale entries in here that were still being referenced.

Getting Guava to work on GWT

I can't get Guava to work with GWT. I'm using Eclipse, I've added both guava-11.0.2.jar and guava-gwt-11.0.2.jar to my class path, inherited the module com.google.common.collect.Collect in my gwt.xml file but still can't get it working.
It compiles but when I run it a lot of error appear. Many of them refering to unresolvable annotation javax.annotation.Nullable
I tried adding jsr305.jar to my class path but nothing chanded.
Also some errors appear depending on which version of Guava I include (tried with 11.0.2, 11.0.1, 10.0.1) and if I include or not the jsr305.jar
Some examples of these error are:
The type PersonActivity.PersonFilterPredicate must implement the inherited abstract method Predicate<PersonRoleProxy>.apply(Object)
The method compare(T, T) in the type Ordering<T> is not applicable for the arguments (Object, Object)
Which is quite strange because the code compiles and these kind of error should appear at compile time.
We have been embarrassingly unable to figure out the solution to the #Nullable problem, which we believe to be a GWT problem. You can follow along at http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=776 We're trying to get help from the GWT team, but things have been kind of crazy lately for the people who work on the part of the compiler we're interested in. It does look like you can work around the problem by removing -strict from your GWT compilation arguments, but of course that's a terrible workaround.
Other users' experiences suggest that the weird other errors you're seeing are related to the #Nullable problem, though I haven't seen definitive confirmation. You might also confirm that all your imports are com.google.common.* and not com.google.gwt.thirdparty.guava.common.*
Sorry for all the trouble. This is one of a few major thorns in our side at the moment.
The following workaround works for GWT 2.4.0 with
Guava 14.0 RC1 and
jsr305-1.3.9.jar
Create a file named Annotation.gwt.xml with the following content:
<module>
<source path=""/>
</module>
Within the archive jsr305-1.3.9.jar copy this file into sub-directory javax/annotation.
Add the following line to your applications .gwt.xml file:
<inherits name='javax.annotation.Annotation'/>

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