“Central”, “Maven Central”, “The Central Repository”. You’ll here these terms a lot when discussing Java open source-based development. At Sonatype, we often take it for granted that everyone knows what we mean when we say “Central”. We know that’s not true, so we’ve put together this short video overview of Central and what it means to the Java community. Enjoy. Continue reading
Sonatype makes it easy to add your projects to the Central Repository with a free, public hosting service called OSSRH. We first blogged about this back in 2009, but given the growth in the community, we thought some of you may not have seen that post, so we decided to update it. Continue reading
Sonatype is excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with Red Hat to add the popular JBoss Community project components to the Central Repository.
Many JBoss projects, including JGroups, Javaassist, Netty, Hibernate, HornetQ, RestEasy, jBPM and Drools are now included in the Central Repository with more expected to be added in coming months. You’ll be able to easily locate and use these projects in a single, standard location.
The Sonatype team worked closely with JBoss Community project teams to evaluate legacy repositories, cleanup metadata and coalesce disparate content into a single site. Providing transparent, streamlined access to important project artifacts in the Central Repository further accelerates the development process and enables the JBoss Community to more rapidly provide its open source technologies to users.
The Central Repository is the industry-leading source for open source Java components used by over 40,000 development organizations daily. Sonatype has been working to expand the number of components available in Central. By adding the JBoss projects and the Java.net projects announced last month, we expect the Central Repository to offer you access to more than 90 percent of all open source Java projects by the end of this year.
Read more in our press release.
We’ve made several improvements to the Central Repository (Maven Central) to support the incredible growth in both the number of components and the number of developers using it. If you use specific IPs to allow access to Central, you’ll need to update your firewall as described below.
Since 2007, Central has been hosted at Contegix in a shared rack with 100mbps data connections to the Internet. We’ve worked with Contegix to acquire a new dedicated switch that will have a 1gb connection directly to their core routers. The routing to the switches is done at the Layer 3 (IP) level and this means we are moving to a new dedicated ip subnet:
In addition to the network upgrade, we’ve added an entirely new tool to our belts: Dyn (formerly DynDNS.com) is partnering with us to provide active monitoring, failover and global load balancing along with enterprise DNS services for maven.org via their DynECT Managed DNS solution. DNS resolution time should be noticeably faster as Dyn has DNS servers all around the world.
A few months ago we announced that the US Maven Central server had been moved over to a virtual system.
In the natural course of machine rotations, I had some out of warranty machines de-racked, packaged up and sent from the Contegix datacenter to our headquarters in Silver Spring, MD.
When I was unboxing them it dawned on me for the first time that I was laying eyes on a machine so many people have relied upon for years and yet had been so far unseen. Well here it is:
A few facts about Central during the time it was hosted on the machine you see here (3/2007 – 3/2011):
It boggles my mind to think about how many applications both commercial and open source contain bits fetched from this singular machine. Now that we have 2 machines in the UK and 2 VMs floating across 6 hosts in the US, there can never be a single machine in the future we can gaze upon and say “that was Central.”
