Is there any way to skip the step "Resolving dependencies" when do mvn build

Question

I'm building a big project using Tycho.

Trying to build offline after one online build is successful, but every time I build, it costs me about 20mins to resolve dependencies.

For other reasons, build fails and I have to try many times. The wasted time got me crazy. Is there any way I can skip the "Resolving dependencies" step?

Answer 1

Once you build your project, i.e. you hit the install lifecycle phase, Maven will have the dependencies pasted under your local repository.

Unless you force dependencies reloading, Maven will go for an offline installation since all dependencies are there (that is the main purpose of saving artifacts locally). That is the second build should be faster and straightforward.

If you are working within Eclipse, make sure it is using a local copy of Maven. Otherwise, the -o option should be fine if no snapshot dependencies are there:

mvn -o