How can I speed up my maven2 build?

Question

I\'m using a local artifactory to proxy the request, but the build and test phases are still a bit slow. It\'s not the actual compile and tests that are slow, it\'s the \"wa

Answer 1

There are some possibilities to optimize some of the build tasks. For example the 'clean' task can be optimized from minutes to just milliseconds using simple trick - rename 'target' folder instead of delete.

To get details how to do it refer to Speed up Maven build.

Answer 2

Initially, you should get a finer analysis on your build times using something like this and identify the candidates that are taking the most time.

Are tests spinning up a H2 database per test? Is the download of external jar files taking the time? This will guide where to focus your investigation. Just applying go-fast flags don't usually work as they would have already been included by default, and you don't want to be sacrificing your tests with skip flags.