IntelliJ adds a 'generated' folder/package to artifact

Question

When I build a .jar artifact using IntelliJ, it adds an empty folder/package named 'generated' to my jar file. Why is that?

My artifact 'Output Layout':

name.jar
-  file.yml
- '%module name%' compile output

Answer 1

generated directory appears in the output if you have annotation processing enabled in IntelliJ IDEA compiler settings.

You can disable this option, delete the generated directory and rebuild the project and the artifact to make it go away, but it should not affect your application in any way, so you can just ignore it.