Build depends on JavaCC which causes issues for IDEs

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henrib · Dec 9, 2015 · 4d9a559 · 4d9a559
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@@ -6,3 +6,9 @@ The following goals may be useful:
 * mvn site - create the documentation
 * mvn package - build the jar
 * mvn install - build the jar and install in local maven repository
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+Note that the Maven build process uses JavaCC to generate some sources.
+These are created under target/generated sources and automatically compiled.
+The generated class files are needed to compile some of the ordinary Java source files.
+This can cause problems for some IDEs, which will need to be configured accordingly.
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