tion’s source code lives – the  current directory is used if you don’t provide a value)</li>
  <li>the destination directory (where you want the generated code to go; often  the same as $SRC_DIR), and</li>
  <li>the path to your <code>.proto.</code></li>
</ul>
<p>In this case:</p>
<pre><code class="bash">$ protoc -I=resources --java_out=target/examples \
  resources/protobuf/examples/tutorial.proto
</code></pre>
<p>This gives us:</p>
<pre><code class="bash">$ ls -1 target/examples/protobuf/examples/tu