Issue
How does one use Maven to support incremental builds? Is there a guide somewhere? (top Google results are disappointing)
Solution
Maven builds incrementally by default, but it turns out that the compiler plugin (i.e., the core of javac) is so fast that building fresh every time is not a bottleneck with sane codebase sizes, not by comparison with constructing large assemblies or running large test suites. (Java, like most languages, is much faster to compile than C++.)
Answered By - Donal Fellows
