In case this helps, Jason Dillon has a "Maven Shell" that does what you seek for CLI - launches a Maven instance and runs interactive commands with it, saving the startup time. https://github.com/jdillon/mvnsh
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:27 AM Jaroslav Tulach <jaroslav.tul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And it's Apache Maven, over the corner at https://maven.apache.org/ so > > I suppose that community would be happy to get such contributions. > > > > -Bertrand > > You are right, Bertrand. Why not ask! > > Hello Maven guys, > we had a discussion on the NetBeans mailing list recently and here is a > summary: > * Apache NetBeans IDE is delegating most of its work directly to Maven > * Users however complain that the speed isn't great > * One of the ideas was to launch a "zombie" instance of Maven in advance > * then actions like build, exec or test would be faster > > Have you thought about something like this already? Any advices? > > Best regards. > Jaroslav Tulach > NetBeans Platform Architect > > ne 23. 8. 2020 v 9:06 odesílatel Jaroslav Tulach < > jaroslav.tul...@gmail.com> > napsal: > > > > I agree with others, Ant is much faster day to day. But the pom.xml has > > > become the universal project file for Java, > > > > Thank you all for sharing your thoughts. I know Maven start is slower, > but > > I > > learned to live with it. It is interesting to hear that some of you > > maintain a > > dual Ant based copy of your project metadata. Once we were trying a > > different > > approach: > > > > There is a way to speed Maven in the IDE. Launch Maven, let it read all > > XML & > > co. files and stop it. As soon as we need to build/run/test, wake up this > > zombie Maven process, tell it what to do and let it continue. If the XML > > files > > are modified, throw the process away and initialize it again. Tomáš > Stupka > > implemented a prototype of this and there were no issues, as far as I > know > > (nobody tested it thoroughly however). > > > > Maybe the support is even in and there is a property to turn it on. If > the > > Maven startup is the biggest problem for you guys, we shall investigate > > how to > > turn Tomáš's work on... > > > > -jt > > > > > > > > > > > > >