java - Maven building only changed files

Question

Lets say i have module structure like below

     Modules
       ->utils
       ->domain
       ->client
       ->services
       ->deploy (this is at the module level)

Now to lauch the client i need to make a build of all the modules, i.e utils, domain, client, services, because i am loading the jars of all the above modules to fianlly lanch the client

And all the jars gets assembled in the module deploy.

My question is if i change anything in services for example, then is there a way when running a build from deploy maven could recognise it has to build only services and hence build it and deploy it in deploy folder?

Answer 1

If you only call "mvn install" without "clean", the compiler plugin will compile only modified classes.