Control Artifact Access and Deployment from a Single Location
Nexus Professional is a central component of your development tooling that integrates directly with the IDE, the Central Repository, the build tool, and the provisioning tool as follows:
| IDE | Developers can easily browse and select artifacts from any local or remote repository – all from within a familiar development environment. This saves times by reducing context switching and transcription errors. |
| The Central Repository | This is a two-way integration, with Nexus both pulling and pushing artifacts to and from the Central Repository. The proxy function pulls allowed artifacts from remote repositories and stores them locally where they can be used by the build tool. This reduces build time greatly as large numbers of artifacts do not need to be downloaded with every build. On the other end of the development process, the Nexus build promotion features are used by many open source development organizations to control the pushing of completed artifacts back to the Central Repository for use by the community. |
| Build tool | This is a two way integration, with the build tool, typically Apache Maven, both pulling artifacts from Nexus to satisfy dependencies and pushing newly created artifacts back to the local repository. Storing your artifacts in the Nexus repository encourages collaboration by making it simple for developers to share functionality without having to share source code. |
| Provisioning | The provisioning tool will take finished applications, stored as binary artifacts in Nexus, and deploy them to servers. The build promotion feature is useful here as it can be used to control which artifacts are ready for deployment. |
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"One of my favorite things about Sonatype is that I get to collaborate with some of the best engineers and architects. Between working on open source projects and working with large enterprise customers, we can take their problems and ideas back to our team so we can develop top-notch solutions for them."Brian Fox
Vice President of Engineering
Sonatype, Inc.
