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Hi everyone, quick question about the spring boot plugin. Is there any particular reason why the `bootJar` task has a dependency on `kaptKotlin`? My understanding is that kapt is needed only for the metadata generation for the ide, am I wrong?

kapt is annotation processor, metadata for IDE is just one use, annotation processing can do all sorts of things aside from that, including but not limited to code generation

Is there a specific need for a spring project? `kaptKotlin` slows down all our microservices pipelines and I'm trying to figure out if I can safely exclude that task or not

How do you determine that `bootJar` has a dependency on `kaptKotlin`?

My fault, I actually found where we were applying the kapt plugin. Now I’m trying to understand if it is really needed. Apart for generating metadata, is usually not needed for spring projects, right?