GWT 2.0.0 rc2 - failing to compile annotation (when used with Maven plugin 1.2-SNAPSHOT)

[Karthik Abram]

I have a class in the "client" subpackage (lets call it Foo) that has
an annotation (say @Bar) that is in a client.gwt.rpc sub-package. This
construct compiles fine with GWT eclipse plugin (1.2 rc2, eclipse
galileo) but when I compile using the maven plugin, I get a
ClassNotFoundException in the compile phase and the compiler says
[WARN] Ignoring unresolvable annotation type ...

Has anyone run into a similar problem or does anyone have a workaround?

Thanks
K