Nexus Professional allows you to define templates for Maven Settings and use Nexus as a way to distribute updates to a global Maven Settings template. When you move an organization to a repository manager such as Nexus, one of the constant challenges is keeping everyone's Maven Settings synchronized. If a Nexus administrator makes a change which requires every developer to modify his or her ~/.m2/settings.xml file, this feature can be used to manage the distribution of Maven Settings changes to the entire organization. Once you have defined a Maven Settings template in Nexus Professional, developers can then use the Nexus Maven plugin to retrieve the new Maven Settings file directly from Nexus Professional.