Per this SA: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16074219/static-compile-groovy-by-default-using-maven

I would like a way to tell the compiler to always compile static in a maven project.

It looks like this was tracked on the old codehaus issue tracking as GRECLIPSE-1615 - if this is already tracked somewhere else please let me know.