Maven Build Cache Extension

One of the advantages Gradle had over Maven was build caching.

Thanks to Maven Cache Build Extension  you can also get build caching for maven builds too.

How to set this up

On the top level of your maven project add

.mvn folder

Within the mvn folder add extensions.xml  and maven-build-cache-config.xml

Example

The contents of extensions.xml should be something like this

<extensions>
    <extension>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.extensions</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-build-cache-extension</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.1</version>
    </extension>
</extensions>

The contents of  maven-build-cache-config.xml should be like this from the template provided by in this  In the Getting Started page for Maven Build Cache Extension 

(link for the template config can be found here)

Note the default config has remote enabled, which is annoying default if you just want to get local build cache working first.

So here are few adjustments I made to the template maven-build-cache-config.xml

(yellow commented out ,  green additional config added)

Also for slimplicity I also comment out the global section with in the input section of the template

Now when you run your maven build (the second time), you should see it skipping various plugins as it uses the cached results instead

Where is the cached build stored?  By default in the same folder your your m2 repository resides