100 points to Ron. Ron touched on something here - not sure if you can look at any of the transitive dependencies you may be pulling in and see if you can exclude some of those as well.
-----Original Message----- From: Ron Wheeler [mailto:rwhee...@artifact-software.com] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 5:24 PM To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: Re: help - how to reduce the build time using mvn and cargo By this time on a Friday 3s look like 7s. We had to remove over 70 out of our build. It made lots of things better. Some dependencies such as CXF for Web services are huge and getting them as provided was a big help since we had a dozen or so webapps in our LMS portal that used web services. If 70 can be removed will the WAR file be a negative size and give you back disk space when you build it? Ron CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and the information transmitted within including any attachments is only for the recipient(s) to which it is intended and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of; or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please send the e-mail back by replying to the sender and permanently delete the entire message and its attachments from all computers and network systems involved in its receipt.