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Sonatype's Repository Management Refcard on DZone


May 14, 2010 By hloney

The Maven Repository Management Refcard is now available for downloading at DZone.  The DZone Refcard is an in-depth introduction to Maven Repository Management, including information on the features of Nexus and Nexus Professional.  This Refcard gives clear explanations of and introductions to all of the components of Maven Repository Management, as well as step-by-step instructions of how to employ Repository Management best practices. 

The Refcard covers:

  • Repository management
  • Repository coordinates
  • Project dependencies
  • Remote repositories
  • Proxy repositories
  • Hosted repositories
  • and more…

Click here for an in-depth look at Maven Repository Management.

Sonatype Nexus 1.4.1 introduces a plugin console and custom artifact metadata


December 16, 2009 By Tim O'Brien

Sonatype is pleased to announce the 1.4.1 release of both Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional.

Nexus Open Source 1.4.1 Highlights

Nexus Plugin Console

Use the Nexus Plugin Console to list all installed Nexus plugins and browse REST services made available by installed Nexus Plugin. To open the Nexus Plugin Console, click on the Plugin Console link in the Administration section of the Nexus menu as shown in the following figure.

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Searching Central Just Got Easier with Nexus


October 16, 2009 By Tim O'Brien

We’ve made a small, but important change to the front page of http://repository.sonatype.org.    (You might recognize the design.)

Searching the Central Maven Repository Just Got Easier from Sonatype on Vimeo.

To search for an library or an artifact:

  1. Go to http://repository.sonatype.org
  2. Type in an artifact or group identifier, a class name, or a checksum.
  3. Press Enter.

Once you have located the artifact you were looking for, click on the artifact and copy the dependency XML from Nexus to your POM.   It couldn’t get any easier or intuitive.   Make sure to bookmark http://repository.sonatype.org.

Nexus 1.3.5 Released


July 14, 2009 By Brian Fox

We are pleased to announce the release of Nexus 1.3.5. Download Nexus Professional 1.3.5 or Nexus Open Source 1.3.5 today.

New to the Professional version is OSGI Bundle Repository support. Stuart summed it up nicely in his detailed post:

…but how does this relate to Nexus Professional? Well with Nexus Pro 1.3.5 you will be able to:
  1. dynamically generate OBR metadata for your existing repositories
  2. proxy and cache remote OBRs, including both metadata and bundles
  3. host local OBRs and deploy bundles into them using the UI or Maven
  4. group all of the above types of OBRs into a single merged OBR
  5. apply CRUD privileges to control access to particular bundles

Basically the same things you can do with Maven and P2 repositories you can now do with OBR!

Other than the new OBR plugin, this release was primarily to fix some bugs that cropped up since the 1.3.4 release a few weeks ago. We deem these fixes important and recommend everyone upgrade to the latest release.

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What is a Repository Manager?


April 6, 2009 By Tim O'Brien

Download “Introduction to Repository Management” as a PDF

What is a Repository Manager?

  • A proxy for remote repositories which caches artifacts saving both bandwidth and time required to retrieve a software artifact from a remote repository, and
  • A host for internal artifacts providing an organization with a deployment target for software artifacts.

In addition to these two core features, a repository manager also allows you to manage binary software artifacts through the software development, quality assurance, and production release lifecycle. In addition to these core features, a repository manager can search software artifacts, audit development and release transactions, and integrate with external security systems such as LDAP. A repository manager is a powerful tool that encourages collaboration and provides visibility into the workflow which surrounds binary software artifacts.

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