Visualizing Your Build with the Maven Timeline Plugin

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Large Maven multi-module build (estatio) runs about 10 minutes on a Mac Mini; the Maven timeline plugin instruments start/end times and spits out a browseable UI under target/timeline so phases appear as a Gantt chart. Using mvn -T1C with mvndaemon speeds things but reveals that integration tests are the main bottleneck; moving a module’s tests into a separate module lets compilation of dependents run in parallel. Output is static JS/HTML (served with local web server) and the UI currently uses deprecated Web SQL.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:40Overview
3. 1:30Maven Demon
4. 2:30What else can you do
5. 4:05Maven Timeline demo
6. 7:30How to enable Maven Timeline
7. 8:20Who wrote Maven Timeline
8. 9:20Confession
9. 10:00Outro

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