Author Archives: hloney

Select better components with the new Eclipse plugin


July 12, 2011 By hloney

Sonatype is happy to announce a brand new webinar taking place in July: Select Better Components with New Eclipse Plugin.

After this webinar you will have the knowledge and tools you need to quickly and safely incorporate components into your projects. And as a bonus, when you participate in this webinar you will be one of the first to download the free public beta of the initial release of Sonatype Development Insight for Eclipse!

Webinar details:

  • Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011
  • Time: 10:30AM EDT (UTC/GMT-0400)
  • Presenter: Brian Fox, Sonatype Vice President of Engineering

Produce higher quality code using the enhanced quality, security, and license data provided by the Sonatype Development Insight plugin for Eclipse. In this webinar you will learn how Development Insight for Eclipse will help you:

  • Determine when new component versions are available and whether or not to upgrade
  • Understand what versions of each component are used in your project
  • Identify where a specific component is used
  • Choose components that meet your quality, security and licensing standards

Register today!

Video: Multi-master configuration for Nexus


July 5, 2011 By hloney

Some questions about syncing Maven repositories between two sites were recently asked on GetSatisfaction.com.

“We will be moving data centers and want to setup another Maven2 repo that is managed with Nexus OSS. We want both repositories to be online and read\writeable until we migrate all our environments to the new site. I have a few questions:
  1. What is the best method for copying the repo to the new location?
  2. What is the best method for keeping the two repos in sync? We want to minimize network bandwidth usage.”

The video below answers these questions, and offers multiple solutions:

Video: Nexus Basics in 110 Seconds


June 29, 2011 By hloney

If your build relies on Maven Central, and you’re not using a repository manager, you are wasting valuable time and bandwidth by continually downloading the same artifacts, over and over again.

But the good news is, with a Nexus repository manager you don’t need to worry about this ever again.

This video gives a quick overview of the benefits of using a Nexus to proxy Maven Central. It also goes over how to store third party libraries, and host artifacts.

Watch the video below:

Where is m2eclipse?


June 28, 2011 By hloney

Last week saw the release of Eclipse Indigo, which is the annual release of Eclipse projects. This year 62 projects were included in the release, including m2eclipse from Sonatype. However, since Indigo’s release there have been some questions as to where users can find m2eclipse.

Sonatype software developer Pascal Rapicault recently answered those questions on his blog, and we’re passing the information on to you.

Helpful links:

Where can you download m2e from?
Why does m2e not ship in the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers package?
At the time we made the decision regarding where to include m2e, the future of the m2e/WTP integration was uncertain. However, since then the situation has changed, with Fred Bricon being hired by JBoss in order to focus on this piece of technology.
In the meantime, Pascal has opened an enhancement request to get m2e added to the JEE package.

Hudson book coming soon!


June 14, 2011 By hloney

Sonatype is happy to be helping the Hudson community with our support of the Hudson book.

The goal of the Hudson book is to be the authoritative source of documentation for Hudson users. We expect it to be available soon. Stay tuned to this blog for updates on the availability of the Hudson book.

For the perspective of one of the key contributors to the project, see Manfred Moser’s recent blog post, “Hudson – Book, Changes, and Community.“

Since the [Hudson] project lives on github it is pretty easy to follow the usual clone, branch, hack, commit, pull request sort of flow and thanks to Maven the build is as easy as .. surprise .. mvn clean install.

Read more of Manfred’s blog on Simpligility.