Speed up maven war plugin

Question

The maven plugin works very slow for me. In my project the webapp folder has nearly 15000 small files (images, jsp, css, etc). When I assemble it with the maven, it first copies

Answer 1

Just want to mention that there is a useCache setting which significantly increases performance (~3 minute instead of 12). However it is acceptable for development only, not for CI-server which should always do clean builds.