M2Eclipse: Maven Integration for Eclipse

Futures: Extending Your Apache Maven-Based Infrastructure Jason van Zyl, Sonatype CTO and creator of Maven will be teaming up with Joel Confino, a Senior Consultant at Chariot Solutions to offer actionable advice for setting up best-in-class software ... [More] development processes that make extensive use of 3rd party components (like the Spring framework). Join us in Philadelphia [...] [Less]

We’ve cut another Nexus release: version 2.1.2 of both OSS and Pro contains several minor bug fixes. To download the newest version of Nexus Professional 2.1.2, click here. To download the newest version of Nexus Open Source 2.1.2, click here. Here is a list of fixes in version 2.1.2 for Nexus Open Source: look at [...]

I don’t often teach our training classes in Maven or Nexus, but when I do, I always tend to get interesting classes. I’m halfway through a on site training class today that, so far, has stood out as a unique experience for me as a trainer. Usually you set up your slides, hand out the [...]

“Dogfooding” is such a strange word, and I’m using it as a substitute for “Eating your own dog food”. As we do have a global audience, I worry that the term is somewhat provincial (and maybe a bit strange out of context). So here, here’s the explanation of this idiom on Wikipedia. Sonatype is “recursive”. [...]

Whenever I teach a Maven training class someone invariably asks me to give some advice for migrating a large, complex Ant project to Maven. Toward the end of the class, I’ll take questions: Participant: “Could you give us some guidance for migrating Ant projects to Maven? Is there a process that you recommend to make [...]

Until yesterday I had a Maven Settings file in ~/.m2/settings.xml that contained following XML: central tobrien ch1c@g0r00lz Silly, right? The only way to authenticate against Nexus was to drop my plaintext username and password in my Settings file, for anyone who gained access to my laptop to see. I’ve never been too happy [...]

This is a big release. We’re announcing the immediate availability of Nexus 2.1, the first minor version update since the Nexus 2.0 release earlier this year. This simultaneous release of both Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional caps off months of effort to implement two major features in Nexus Professional: User Tokens – Developers who [...]

Check out this news story that broke earlier in the week: Java flaws are “increasingly targeted by attackers”. This story was filed by IDG News Service from the Black Hat USA 2012 conference, and it points at a trend we’ve also noticed. The world is waking up to the fact that Java is an attractive [...]

We’re releasing a product today that is something of a break from our other products: Nexus Professional, Insight for CI. First, it’s a service that anyone can use, it isn’t aimed at developers who use Maven or Nexus or any build tool whatsoever. Second, there’s no download or setup process for this product that takes [...]

Central is a critical resource for developers. If you develop Java applications and use Maven, Gradle, or Ivy, Central is what has made it easy for you to consume libraries using dependency declarations in your builds. For more than a decade, Central has been a solid, reliable presence supporting the community and making it easier [...]