A common question from Apache Maven users is “How do I search the central repository?” or “How do I find out what groupId or artifactId I should use for a specific dependency?” Use Sonatype’s Nexus installation at http://repository.sonatype.org to search multiple repositories at once. Sonatype has an instance of Nexus serving as a mirror of a number of repositories including Central. If you are looking for the right XML to put in your project’s POM for a dependency like Log4J or ActiveMQ, just load repository.sonatype.org in your browser..
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One of the users on the m2eclipse user list has some great feedback about a presentation he did at the Stockholm JUG on the best of breed Maven tooling which includes Nexus and m2eclipse. Apparently people are impressed with the Maven support inside m2eclipse which is good to here given the considerable amount of effort Sonatype has invested in m2eclipse to take it to the next level of quality. Here’s what Anders Hammar has to say:
Hi,
About a month ago I did a talk about core Maven things here at our local
JUG in Stockholm, Sweden. m2eclipse wasn’t the main focus of the talk,
but I did use it for some examples. Mainly what was used was the pom
editor and the Nexus indexes.
Even though I think the actual topics of my talk are highly interesting,
most of the questions afterwards were regarding “the plugins I used in
Eclipse”. Not only did some people think I hade created my own best of
breed mixture, but also were a lot of people very impressed of the
actual Maven support. I spoke to some people who had looked at Eclipse
support some time ago (6 months – a year) but had then found it very
poor. These people said that they would have a look at m2eclipse again
now after my talk.
So, thanks and keep up the great job!
/Anders
Thanks for the great feedback Anders. I think it’s good to see users’ sharing their experiences about m2eclipse and Nexus because it does make the choice for the next set of users much easier.
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