also afaik kapt works in maven as well 😉

yeah it's a minor thing, it just helps a bit since it means there's no need for the metadata file since it generates the metadata itself. And maybe it does work in maven but I think the annotation processing doesn't work which is what the spring article I linked says

Currently, it outputs the metadata to

build/tmp/classes/main

, I'm not sure how to change this output directory currently so for right now I think the generated metadata might need to be moved manually into the resources folder.

if you build out a jar locally you can open up the archive and verify config metadata is under

META-INF

Ah yeah, it does generate the metadata, I'll remove the metadata file from sources

I tested it with a local jar and imported it in another project. The properties worked, and with documentation as well.