In huge multi-module-projects the maven-release-process might have a long running time because there is a lot of site-content to generate and to deployed (Of course this depends on the used report-plugins, i.e. javadoc, findbugs,pmd, dashboard etc.)

I noticed that the upload of the generated javadoc etc. uses a big amount of the deployment time. So how we can speedup this part of the deployment?

We can deploy the generated site in a local directory and after the successful release we can upload the whole directory to the server, i.e. zip the content and unpack on the server, or use a smb-shared-directory … then the site-upload is much faster than with site:deploy and webdav.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<distributionManagement>
 <site>
 <id>site</id>
 <url>${site.distribution.url}/</url>
 </site>
<distributionManagement>
<profiles>
<profile>
 <id>release</id>
<properties>
 <site.distribution.url>file://D:/SITE-RELEASE/</site.distribution.url>
 <site.url>http://site-server/releases/</site.url>
 </properties>
 </profile>
</profiles>
<properties>
 <site.url>http://site-server/snapshots/</site.url>
 <site.distribution.url>dav:${site.url}</site.distribution.url>
</properties>

</project>

Try it