When using maven jetty:run - is it possible to disable the compilation step?

Question

I'm working with Eclipse and Maven and run my application using the Maven jetty plugin.

I find it mildly irritating that Maven insists on recompiling my files every time I execute jetty:run. It is sub-optimal, as the files have already been compiled by Eclipse (and I'm writing Scala which has a (relatively) slow compiler).

I'm using profiles, and run mvn jetty:run under my 'development' profile.

What I want to do is:

Configure the jetty plugin so that it skips the compilation phase whilst running under the development profile.

I've looked into maven lifecycle documentation but haven't found any information about a 'skip.compile' flag or configuration parameter.

I've also tried configuring Maven like so in the vain assumption that it would stop the recompile upon maven-jetty-plugin startup.

I was wrong, it did not work. But what I have thought is, perhaps the Scala compiler is the problem. Perhaps it ignores the compile stuff.

development maven-compiler-plugin default-testCompile test-compile default-compile compile 1.6 1.6 false org.mortbay.jetty jetty-maven-plugin 7.2.2.v20101205 true development

Update:

I'm going to try specifically disabling scala compilation

Answer 1

Finally solved it.. @RobertMunteanu

Wow! Well I've finally figured out what I was doing wrong, the solution is to create a development and production profile, and, for the development profile configure the Scala plugin executions to do nothing.

Like so :

<profile>
  <id>development</id>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.scala-tools</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-scala-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>compile</id>
            <goals></goals>
            <phase>compile</phase>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>test-compile</id>
            <goals></goals>
            <phase>test-compile</phase>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>default-testCompile</id>
            <phase>test-compile</phase>
            <goals></goals>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <id>default-compile</id>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <goals></goals>
          </execution>
          <execution>
            <phase>process-resources</phase>
            <goals>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>