How to time the different stages of maven execution

Question

I have a maven build that is extremely slow. I would like to know whether there is a way to profile maven execution in order to find out which are the most time-consuming st

Answer 1

https://github.com/jcgay/maven-profiler is a similar handy tool. It's easy to setup and use. (Having something like it or EventSpy takari/maven-profiler in core Maven as an option would certainly be neat; comment in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4639 ..)