FYI, you are probably using an IDE. Maven has tools or integrations to help set up most of the IDEs (InteilliJ, Eclipse, Netbeans)
These IDEs will usually do incremental compiles for you while you are developing, you then just use maven every so often to do a full rebuild (to make sure that the IDEs have not got out of sync) Typically, we just develop using the IDE until it's time to commit, then we'll do a mvn clean package of either the module or the whole project depending on the scope of the changes. We use a CI server to do full clean builds with Maven (in our case we use Hudson) and email us if we broke something -Stephen 2008/11/26 Stephen Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > correct > > 2008/11/26 prince s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello, >> I have just started working on Maven. I need one clarification. In the big >> project which has many modules when source files of one module get >> modified >> Maven builds only that module or it builds entire project?. I have noticed >> that Maven doesn't compile any files even after modification in source >> file >> without performing "mvn clean" operation. Please clarify me. >> >> Thanks for your time >> Elavarasan.S >> > >
