Skip a submodule during a Maven build

Question

We have a need to be able to skip a submodule in certain environments.

The module in question contains integration tests and takes half an hour to run. So we want t

Answer 1

Sure, this can be done using profiles. You can do something like the following in your parent pom.xml.

  ...
   
      module1
      module2  
      ...
  
  ...
  
     
       ci
          
            module1
            module2
            ...
            module-integration-test
           
      
  
 ...

In your CI, you would run maven with the ci profile, i.e. mvn -P ci clean install