Not able to get the lombok features in STS - spring-boot

Question

I am using STS on windows. I have added lombok.jar into my project.
I have access to the annotations but the getters and setters aren't generated. I get the same errors I would get if I tried accessing a getter or setter method that doesn't exist. What could I be missing?
Here are the code snips
Bean:
import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
import lombok.Data;
import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
#Data
#NoArgsConstructor
#AllArgsConstructor
public class Employee {
private String name;
private String address;
private String location;
}
Pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Answer 1

Lombok is a code generator. It doesn't need to be included as part of your built target, as such it should be included in your maven as a provided dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>1.18.20</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
You also need to make sure the annotation processor is setup to run as part of the maven build. (Also in the above link)
I don't use eclipse, but you probably also want to install the lombok plugin for eclipse so that eclipse knows the getters and setters are not in the code files but will be generated.