Is it possible to speed up maven artifacts downloading?

Question

Unfortunately the maven initial build is very slow due to artifacts downloading
f.e. I\'ve tried to download the same jar using curl - it is 3 times faster!!!
Why? A

Answer 1

The best optimization is to avoid downloading. Have a look to your settings.xml maven configuration and check if the updatePolicy flag is set to "daily" on releases and snapshots. This should be the default but sometimes it may be set to 'always' - e.g. in repository manager configurations.

Caution: In this case (daily) you have to be cautious on snapshot changes that you might not get immediatly.

I know that this is not a direct answer to your question but the best maven download optimization I know.