Eclipse always Building workspace

I have seen this effect with an ant-based build before.

You probably have something in your maven build that outputs to one of the source folders or one of it subdirectories. Eclipse detects that a file has changed and starts a new build.

I just disabled my project to build automatically. Really annoying to be in that endless loop.

Goto:

Project->Build automatically

In Eclipse, I had to disable Preferences -> Workspace -> Refresh on access thanks to Rudy Vissers comment that put me on the right way.