What exactly is Spring Project Builder doing in Eclipse?

To be more precise, I am setting up a Maven project that uses Spring to inject dependencies. Since I want Maven to add a Spring Project to my Eclipse project projects, I put this in the maven-eclipse-plugin my pom.xml :

 <additionalProjectnatures> <projectnature>org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.springnature</projectnature> </additionalProjectnatures> 

I could not find the official documentation on Spring sites about this Maven setup. Most other sites, for example. for example this or this SO answer , we recommend placing this in the configuration section too:

 <additionalBuildcommands> <buildCommand> <name>org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.springbuilder</name> </buildCommand> </additionalBuildcommands> 

In Eclipse, I see that this constructor is also configured. What exactly is this builder doing?

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