well I am gonna be honest I never thought about it, but I think that if you are running maven with *clean* option it will clean everything and hence will need to recompile and rebuild stuff again, but this is only what I think not really 100% sure.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > I use m2eclipse, which does differential builds using Eclipse's compiler. > This works well enough for me. If I do a mvn from the command line, I tend > to switch off automatic builds, do the build from the command line, then > when I go back to Eclipse, do a full refresh, then switch automatic builds > back on again. > > Related... if you are building from the command line, then mvn install is > gonna be faster than mvn clean install, obviously. In this sense maven is > "change" aware. > > HTH > Dan > > On 18/10/2010 19:42, Kevin Meyer - KMZ wrote: >> >> Is there any plan to make maven "change" aware, like "make"? I find >> it a little surprising that each build starts from the beginning, even if >> no sources have changed! >> >> Or am I missing something? >> > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guide) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best." - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship "Stay hungry, stay foolish." - Steve Jobs
