Maven site build slow due to Dependency report plugin

Friday, 25 January 2013 11:18

Maven site build slow

If you get an error messages like this while building your site :

<pre>

[ERROR] Unable to determine if resource org.apache.geronimo.bundles:bval-jsr303:jar:0.3_1-incubating:provided exists in ...svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openejb/repo/

</pre>

Your Dependency report plugin taking a long time to generate with Url is invalid � repository will be blacklisted.

The message is �clear, one of the dependency report plugin tries to determine if resources are located within a given repository. If that repository doesn�t exist anyomore or is just terribly slow, your site build will be as well.

To fix this issue you can run your site building using the following parameter :

-Ddependency.locations.enabled=false

or disable it directly in your Pom or Settings.xml

<plugin>
   <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
   <configuration>
      <dependencyLocationsEnabled>false</dependencyLocationsEnabled>
   </configuration>
</plugin>

The repository location won't be published anymore but you will enjoy your faster build

With a parent pom

If you want to disable the parameter for all children project :

<reporting>
   <plugins>
      <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
            <dependencyLocationsEnabled>false</dependencyLocationsEnabled>
         </configuration>
      </plugin>
   </plugins>
</reporting> 

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