diff --git a/concourse/tasks/build-vsix.sh b/concourse/tasks/build-vsix.sh
index a44e48251..d799492f1 100755
--- a/concourse/tasks/build-vsix.sh
+++ b/concourse/tasks/build-vsix.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ set -e
 workdir=`pwd`
 sources=$workdir/sts4/vscode-extensions/$extension_id
 
+if [ -d "maven-cache" ]; then
+    echo "Prepopulating maven cache"
+    tar xzf maven-cache/*.tar.gz -C ${HOME}
+else
+   echo "!!!No stored maven cache found!!! "
+   echo "!!!This may slow down the build!!!"
+fi
+
 cd ${sources}/../commons-vscode
 npm install
 
diff --git a/concourse/tasks/build-vsix.yml b/concourse/tasks/build-vsix.yml
index 56bbd2060..697570137 100644
--- a/concourse/tasks/build-vsix.yml
+++ b/concourse/tasks/build-vsix.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 inputs:
 - name: sts4
+- name: maven-cache
 outputs:
 - name: out
 platform: linux