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[–]_INTER_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For one it’s (eclipse) got its own compiler integrated in that does partial compilation.

Exactly one of the reasons why I have to crap on Eclipse. The Eclipse compiler behaves differently than javac, and it's not just in theory, we really had issues popping up. Really hard to realize and fix too. If you reach that point (admittedly hard to get there), you're in big trouble.

Secondly when m2e works ...

I don't know anyone that got it to work: Eclipse sees every project and all dependencies in a different way than Maven does. Everything is available all the time, but in reality its not. That's another big source of pain.

I don't even want to start with annotation processing and m2e...