replace rebuilded module JAR in the EAR (Maven2 project)

Question

Hello. During the development time I'm iteratively rebuilding some modules of my project. Rebuilding resulting ear-project gets a huge amount of time. If there is a way allowing to rebuild only jar file of changed module and then replace this jar in resulting EAR then it could reduce build time and accelerate development process.

So questions: Is there any maven plugin allowing to do partial module rebuilding and replacing jars in ear?

Answer 1

Did you try to use the -pl or --projects option (requires Maven 2.1+, see Maven Tips and Tricks: Advanced Reactor Options for more details)? Something like that:

mvn --projects your-jar,your-ear install

This might speed up things.