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Nexus as Open Source Infrastructure: User Sign-Up
If you’ve ever participated in an open source community like the Apache Software Foundation or Codehaus, you’ll know that there are hundreds (sometimes thousands) of participants and interested parties for projects such as Maven, httpd, or
A year of providing free Maven repository hosting
I was doing a little digging for some old emails recently and realized that it’s been over a year that oss.sonatype.org has been available for free Maven repository hosting of Open Source projects.
The first was plexus, naturally since
Special Character Encoding Properties
The other week I listened to Dennis Lundberg’s presentation “Site creation with Maven” and learned something new. As most of us living outside the plain ASCII world have experienced, character encoding makes a big difference when it comes to ensuring that text remains readable. For XML files, the encoding can be defined through the XML [...]
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Wakaleo Consulting: Parameterized web tests with Maven and Selenium
“Selenium is a popular web testing
Nexus Professional’s Support for Atlassian Crowd
Atlassian’s Crowd is a single sign-on and identity management product that many organizations use to consolidate user accounts and control which users and groups have access to which applications. Nexus Professional contains an optional security
Response to Maven Problems on the JBoss Wiki, Part One
I was recently pointed to a list of Maven Problems maintained on the JBoss wiki. This is actually a great summary of areas to improve, and I’m not surprised that the list is very close to the list of issues that the Maven community has been working to address over the past few months. [...]
Maven 3.0-alpha-3 Released!
For those you following along with our story on improving Maven, you’ll happy to know that we have made a significant step today with the release of Maven 3.0-alpha-3. Though we are marking this as an alpha release, we are largely feature complete for Maven 3.0 and consider this to be the best version of [...]
Maven 3.x, community participation & multi-threaded execution
One of key goals of Maven 3.x is to clean up the code in order to make it possible for others to participate. There are quite a few Maven committers but most of them work on plugins: there aren’t really that many people who work on the core. For the Maven 3.x core it’s been [...]
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Fun with Spring Actionscript and Maven
“Spring Actionscript is a great library - no question. It makes it
Nexus Tips and Tricks: Publishing Maven Sites to Nexus 1.4
Nexus Professional provides a new hosted repository type: a Maven Site repository. This repository can be used to hold a Maven-generated web site. In addition to publishing your artifacts to a Nexus repository, you can also use Nexus to serve your