How to speed up Maven and Eclipse?

At work I am constantly bugged by modal dialogs in my Eclipse whenever the m2e plugin starts any kind of long-running Maven action, like downloading artifacts from our company repository. It startet to get really annoying a couple of weeks ago when almost every single one of our own artifacts downloaded only with a few kB/s. So I started to investigate some of the usual suspects: network speed proxy speed maven settings Nexus repository settings To test network speed I did regular HTTP Get requests and tried downloading our artifacts from different computers around the network....

23. Oktober 2014 ยท Carsten

Using Infinitest with m2e in Eclipse

Iโ€™m a huge fan of Infinitest to have a continuous feedback loop from my unit tests while developing. Recently I noticed that when Iโ€™m working with m2e some of my testcases were red when Inifitest executed them, but were green when I run the Junit tests via Eclipse. After thinking about it, I figured out that all tests that were using configuration or input files from my src/test/resources folder were failing....

13. Februar 2014 ยท Carsten