maven-nailed

Speeds up Maven successive invocations by "keeping a copy of Maven running in the background" using nailgun (avoiding reloading plugin classes and taking advantage of a warmed up jvm).

Once installed, you can use nvn instead of mvn; nvn will transparently start nvn-server in the background if it isn't already started, and then on hand all the command line args to nvn-server.

To stop nvn-server, run nvn --stop with no other args.

Currently is built with Maven 3.0.5, but shouldn't be too hard to make it switchable to other versions (pull requests welcome!) Note that there's some code copy pasted and modified (1 line commented out) from Maven 3.0.5, so you'll need to update that most likely if you go down that path.

See also mvnsh, but the approach in this project doesn't replace your shell.

Forked from nigelzor's maven-nailgun (many thanks!) to add packaging and tests.

Prereqs:

• gcc compiler
• bash and standard unix utils: nc, lsof, awk, xargs, sed, kill, cp
• nothing listening on port 45785 (git grep MVN_NAILGUN_PORT to see where to change this)
• a mvn to bootstrap with

Installing:

To start using:

• run mvn package and follow instructions under 'next steps'

To run integration tests or get a demo:

• run mvn integration-test

Installing when mvn package doesn't work:

For use on Windows / other times when the packaging scripts fail.

• run mvn pre-package to create target/maven-nailed-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
• copy nailgun-server-0.9.1.jar (should be in your maven repo) and maven-nailed-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar into maven's /lib/ext/
• in maven's /bin/, make copies of mvn and m2.conf (nvn-server and nvn.conf)
• in mvn-ng-server change "-Dclassworlds.conf=${M2_HOME}/bin/m2.conf" to "-Dclassworlds.conf=${M2_HOME}/bin/nvn.conf"
• in nvn.conf change org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli to com.asparck.maven.nailed.Server
• start the server with nvn-server localhost:2113
• download and compile the nailgun client from source to ng
• whenever you would call mvn foo, now use ng com.asparck.maven.nailed.Client foo