M2Eclipse: Maven Integration for Eclipse

We were happily surprised by this blog post from Rob Knight “Comparison of Maven Artifact Repositories”*. Here’s his intro: “In the team I work for, we support up to 200-300 developers at any one time. We currently use Apache Archiva. This has served us well for a number of years, but due to various ongoing [...]

I’m busy assembling an evaluation guide for the upcoming release of Nexus Professional, and while I was working on material for Pro it occurred to me that we could do a better job supporting new users of Nexus OSS. Here is a Nexus OSS evaluation guide that focuses on the initial steps with Nexus. If [...]

There’s a shift in the way organizations are thinking about security, and This article in Infoworld “IBM: Security execs move more toward active risk management” is exactly what we’ve been talking about. Here’s the quote that stood out: “Nearly ... [More] two-thirds of security leaders say their senior executives are paying more attention to security today than [...] [Less]

Join Brian Fox tomorrow, Wednesday, May 23 at 11AM EDT or 2PM EDT (GMT-0400) for a 30 minute tour of Insight for CI. In this demo, Brian will show how Insight for CI will help you: Generate a detailed bill of materials for every build in Hudson and Jenkins. Find and fix license, security and [...]

Due to high demand, we have added a second webinar presentation next Wednesday at 2PM EDT (GMT-0400) to accommodate multiple time zones. Here are the details for the presentation: Join Brian Fox this Wednesday, May 23 at 11AM EDT or 2PM EDT (GMT-0400) for a 30 minute tour of Insight for CI. In this demo, [...]

One of my responsibilities at Sonatype is creating the pages that communicate licensing and security information in Nexus Professional and Insight for CI. We have a large team that is responsible for these pages and making sure that we’re providing ... [More] accurate information. You would be surprised at the number of interesting edge cases that we identify [...] [Less]

As we’ve been busy building out the Insight product line we’ve spent significant time considering the issues associated with “conflicting” and “invalid” licenses — licenses which upon consumption preclude further redistribution without being in ... [More] violation of the licensing terms.  Conflicting (or incompatible) licenses are problematic for development organizations using open source software as there is [...] [Less]

Join Brian Fox Wednesday, May 23 at 11AM EDT (GMT-0400) for a 30 minute tour of our latest innovation, Insight for CI. Brian will show you how Insight for CI will help you: Gain visibility and control at build time in Hudson and Jenkins. Find and fix license, security and quality problems quickly. Set rules [...]

I was doing a bit of data analysis of the data that drives our Nexus Professional popularity results and I came across some statistics that show demand for Google Guava has been picking up over the last year. Our Top 10 list for general utilities contains the usual suspects. Libraries like Commons Lang and Commons [...]

A big thanks to all of you who registered and attended our sneak preview of Insight for CI last week. We had a great turnout and a lot of fantastic questions! If you didn’t have a chance to register, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out. The replay is now available. Request the webinar [...]