Just throwing this out there. We all know the maven build is slow. It never donned on me until now that maybe maven would have a parallel build option and it does [1]. I wouldn't recommend this for official builds or jenkins jobs, but for developers use the parallel build option. Basically add '-T 1.5C'. On my machine (which has 8 cores) it was about twice as fast.
In general, the build process needs a lot of TLC, but that's for another day.... Darren [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Parallel+builds+in+Maven+3
