How can I speed up Maven and Netbeans

Question

I have a rather large project (with quite a large stack including Spring and Hibernate) that I build through Netbeans using Maven.

Unfortunately, every time I make a cha

Answer 1

Why do you need to run the Tests on each change? That's a huge cost, when making trivial changes. Switch it off using -DskipTests=true

Take a look at : http://wiki.netbeans.org/HotDeploymentWebApplicationWithMaven

Also, setup Netbeans to hot deploy on Tomcat (use Jetty). See this post : Incremental hot deployment on Tomcat with Maven and NetBeans.