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 ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...

To compile Eclipse natively, Red Hat's Eclipse Engineering team used GCJ, a free, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for Java. GCJ can compile Java source code to native machine code, Java source code ...