There are two distributions of Nexus: Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional. Nexus Open Source is a fully-featured repository manager which can be freely used, customized, and distributed under the GNU Public License (GPL) Version 3. Nexus Professional is a distribution of Nexus with features that are relevant to large enterprises and organizations which require complex procurement and staging workflows in addition to more advanced LDAP integration, Atlassian Crowd support, and other development infrastructure. The differences between Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional are explored in Chapter 2, Repository Management.
To download Nexus Open Source, go to http://nexus.sonatype.org/using/download.html.
Click on the Download Site link shown in Figure 3.1, “Downloading Nexus Open Source from
http://nexus.sonatype.org” and then download the
appropriate Nexus Open Source distribution by clicking on the
appropriate archive as shown in Figure 3.2, “Selecting the Nexus Open Source Distribution Download”. Nexus Open Source is
available as a ZIP and a Gzip'd
TAR file under the file names
nexus-oss-webapp-1.7.2-bundle.zip and
nexus-oss-webapp-1.7.2-bundle.tgz.
Note
Nexus Open Source can also be deployed as a web application in a servlet container like Jetty or Tomcat or an application server like Glassfish or JBoss. Instructions for installing Nexus as a WAR are found in Section 3.8, “Installing the Nexus WAR”.
To download Nexus Professional, go to http://www.sonatype.com/products/downloads.
Click on the download link shown in Figure 3.3, “Downloading Nexus Professional from
http://www.sonaype.com/products/download” and fill out the Nexus Professional
Registration form. After filling out a brief contact form and agreeing
to the evaluation license, you will be sent an email with a link
to download the Nexus Professional distribution. Nexus is available as a
ZIP and a Gzip'd TAR file under
the file names nexus-professional-webapp-1.7.2-bundle.zip and
nexus-professional-webapp-1.7.2-bundle.tgz.
