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....