The Maven Incremental Build plugin is a plugin that enable maven to recompile only what it have to when you call mvn compile (It is not necessary to call clean phase now).
'net.java.maven-incremental-build:incremental-build-plugin:1.4'
<dependency>
<groupId>net.java.maven-incremental-build</groupId>
<artifactId>incremental-build-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="net.java.maven-incremental-build" name="incremental-build-plugin" rev="1.4"/>
"net.java.maven-incremental-build", "incremental-build-plugin", "1.4"