That's because once a Maven project is created in Eclipse, the m2eclipse plugin enables a variety of tools, context menus and features that make it easy for developers to compile ... you're ready to ...

Edit and compile source code externally and load it into Eclipse ... Implement a compiler that runs inside Eclipse. In other words, write the compiler in Java and run it in the same JVM as Eclipse ...

Abstract: Eclipse compiler for Java (ECJ) is open source incremented compiler. We reform features of ECJ, related to optimization technique called as dead code detection and elimination. ECJ ...

After all, Eclipse is built on top of OSGi so there had to be a way to compile Java code with the compiler. Thankfully I found the source code for Jasper, the Apache implementation of the standard ...