diff --git a/tracing-api/build.gradle b/tracing-api/build.gradle
index d29891b17..ded674359 100644
--- a/tracing-api/build.gradle
+++ b/tracing-api/build.gradle
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ dependencies {
     testCompile "org.mockito:mockito-core"
     testCompile "com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml"
 
-    processor "org.immutables:value"
+    annotationProcessor "org.immutables:value"
+    compileOnly 'org.immutables:value::annotations'
 }
diff --git a/tracing-jaxrs/build.gradle b/tracing-jaxrs/build.gradle
index c2fd49a87..ecc552e6a 100644
--- a/tracing-jaxrs/build.gradle
+++ b/tracing-jaxrs/build.gradle
@@ -28,5 +28,6 @@ dependencies {
     testCompile "org.jmock:jmock"
     testCompile "org.mockito:mockito-core"
 
-    processor "org.immutables:value"
+    annotationProcessor "org.immutables:value"
+    compileOnly 'org.immutables:value::annotations'
 }
diff --git a/tracing/build.gradle b/tracing/build.gradle
index a1315e6cd..83b633cf3 100644
--- a/tracing/build.gradle
+++ b/tracing/build.gradle
@@ -35,5 +35,6 @@ dependencies {
     testCompile "org.mockito:mockito-core"
     testCompile "io.zipkin.java:zipkin"
 
-    processor "org.immutables:value"
+    annotationProcessor "org.immutables:value"
+    compileOnly 'org.immutables:value::annotations'
 }