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Does Nexus Pro Support Ant + Ivy Builds? Yes it does.

Written by Tim OBrien | June 20, 2012

Java developers adapting an existing Ant build to dependency management often turn to Ivy. Here’s an evaluation guide for Nexus Professional using two, very simple Ant+Ivy projects. If you are evaluating Nexus Professional, or if you are just looking for some sample projects that configure an Ant + Ivy build to use a repository take a look at this guide. These two projects have build.xml, ivy.xml, and ivysettings.xml files that demonstrate the simplest case of configuring an Ivy build to:

  • Download dependencies from a Nexus Repository Group with Ivy
  • Deploy an Artifact to a Nexus Snapshot Repository from Ivy
  • Staging an Artifact to a Nexus Staging Repository from Ivy

Download Nexus Professional, and then get the eval guide.

Update 2013-05: The evaluation guide has been updated and is now available in HTML and PDF format.