Maven 2 & 3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.9
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Performance
• Labels:

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Maven's dependency downloading is horribly slow.

It appears to only make one request at a time; often to slow mirrors which take seconds to respond.

This is not so much of an issue when you use a local repository to keep and manage your dependencies; though it becomes one again once you leave the network of that repository and try to access it over the internet.

Maven should make multiple (5 or so; configurable perhaps) requests simultaneously so that while several are establishing connection, others are at least already using the available bandwidth. And should mirrors be capped; other artifacts can already be downloaded from other mirrors to make optimal use of the bandwidth. Currently only a fraction of the bandwidth capacity is used; causing an initial build of a large project without a local repository available to take for ever. The project I'm working on; I need to make sure to reserve a day at least should I want to build the code with a client.

• Assignee:

  Brett Porter

  Reporter:

  Maarten Billemont

• Created:

  01/Sep/08 10:01 AM

  Updated:

  17/Dec/08 7:53 PM

  Resolved:

  17/Dec/08 7:53 PM