The following video is a demonstration of archive browsing and Javadoc browsing in Nexus Professional 1.5.0. This video also demonstrates the use of m2eclipse to retrieve source and Javadoc JARs from a repository manager.
If you’ve ever wondered about the contents a JAR or artifact in a Maven repository, you’ve probably had the experience of having to download and unpack it on your local workstation just to see what it contains. It shouldn’t be this difficult and tedious to inspect an archive in a remote repository, and with Nexus Professional 1.5.0 we’ve added the capability to browse the contents of an archive. In addition, we’ve built-in some intelligence that allows you to directly browse Javadoc contained in JAR archives. In this post, I’m going to give a quick tour of this new feature now available in Nexus Professional 1.5.0.
The Archive Browser Plugin will allow you to browse the contents of any JAR, WAR, EAR or ZIP file in the Nexus UI (or over REST if you so desire). You can now view the contents of source JARs, view html documentation stored in javadoc JARs, or browse the contents of the archives, to validate contents. Continue reading
Sonatype is pleased to announce the availability of Nexus 1.5.0. The major announcement? We’ve moved our LDAP integration into Nexus Open Source. In addition to the LDAP changes, this release also contains some important features: Nexus Open Source now ships with the Remote Repository Browsing plugin, and Nexus Professional now has the capability to browse repository archives and serve Javadoc. Nexus Professional has two new plugins: the new Enterprise LDAP plugin which supports multiple LDAP servers and provides caching options for LDAP integration, and a new Branding plugin which allows you to customize the appearance of the Nexus UI.
If you are already using Nexus, it is easy to upgrade. Download the distribution, unpack it next to your sonatype-work/ directory – that’s all it takes to upgrade. If you haven’t installed Nexus yet, download a distribution, unpack it, and run the appropriate script under ${nexus_home}/bin/jsw. If you are not yet using a repository manager, now’s the time.
The rest of this post provides an overview of some of the release highlights. Continue reading
