On 13/02/2010, at 9:11 PM, Dan Washusen wrote: > Maven provides a "-o" argument and Ivy provides a "-Doffline=true" > property. I haven't used the Ivy variant but if you're using SNAPSHOT > dependencies it makes the build a lot quicker. I usually do an infrequent > online build then do the rest in offline mode... > > Maven also provides a "snapshot policy" that can be used to define the > interval between snapshot checks. For example, "always", "daily", > "interval:<in minutes>" or "never"... > http://maven.apache.org/ref/2.0.8/maven-settings/settings.html#class_snapshots >
As I understand it, I think the Maven default setting is no more than once or twice a day to check for snapshot updates. I wonder if the current ivy setting is just checking too often at the moment? (perhaps configurable). 'mvn -U' will force an update, I think '-o' for offline is a larger hammer that shouldn't be necessary. Paul
