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Catch up on the latest news and product releases from the Sonatype team, with our June 2011 Newsletter. In this issue, Hudson moves to Eclipse, enhancements to Nexus, and June training dates for Maven 101 and 201 open for registration.

Hudson: Move to Eclipse, Sonatype donates enhancements, and more

• Oracle announces Hudson move to Eclipse Foundation Oracle plans to contribute the Hudson core code to the Eclipse Foundation. Read Jason van Zyl’s blog or the stories in ADT, eWEEK, and SD Times.

• Sonatype donates enhancements We will contribute our Maven 3.x integration work to the Eclipse Foundation. Watch this community demonstration of the new features. Read more about our contribution in Application Development Trends.

• Sonatype launches Sonatype Pro™ for Hudson See our website for more details.

• Hudson Survey Sonatype and Oracle surveyed over 1,200 Hudson users to see what they’d like to see in future versions. The majority of respondents considered reliability and performance to be most important enhancements. Read a summary blog post or get the full details in this presentation.

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We are offering one last virtual Maven Mechanics (MVN-101) training course for European business hours in June. This will be our last virtual class in CEST for the summer. Be sure to enroll today!

Course details:

• Course: Maven Mechanics (MVN-101)
• Date: Tuesday June 14, 2011
• Time: 9:00AM – 4:00PM CEST (UTC/GMT + 0200) *European Hours
• Enrollment Fee: $595 USD (~425 EUR)

ENROLL TODAY!

Maven Mechanics (MVN-101) is the ideal course for programmers who work with Apache Maven projects and need to understand how to work with an existing Maven build. If your team is just delving into Maven and Nexus, this class is the easiest way to make sure that everyone starts from the same foundation. This class is also appropriate for the existing Maven user who is interested in developing a greater understanding of the Maven fundamentals. Learn more here.

You will leave this Maven tutorial equipped with a full understanding of the Maven Project Object Model (POM) and a firm grasp of the underlying fundamentals of this development kit including:

• The Maven lifecycle
• Maven plugins and goals
• Multi-module Maven projects
• The contents of the Project Object Model (POM)

The Maven 3: The Future of Enterprise Java Build Infrastructure presentation is now available for viewing. This presentation was given at EclipseCon 2011 by Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl.

More on this presentation:

Maven 3 is the best version of Maven yet. Maven 3 is faster, has been optimized for IDE use, and is fully backward compatible with Maven 2. One of the big focuses of Maven 3 is to provide a more reliable, more stable and better performing build tool. Faster Maven builds lead to higher developer productivity in your organization.

Watch the video below:

As part of the Eclipse Live series of webinars, Sonatype software developer Pascal Rapicault is giving a presentation on Tycho: Building Eclipse plugins with Maven.

About the webinar:

Tycho is a set of Maven plugins and extensions for building Eclipse plugins and OSGI bundles with Maven. Eclipse plugins and OSGI bundles have their own metadata for expressing dependencies, source folder locations, etc. that are normally found in a Maven POM. Tycho uses native metadata for Eclipse plugins and OSGi bundles and uses the POM to configure and drive the build. Tycho supports bundles, fragments, features, update site projects and RCP applications. Tycho also knows how to run JUnit test plugins using OSGi runtime and there is also support for sharing build results using Maven artifact repositories.

Join this webinar to get an overview of the Tycho project and to learn what plans the project has for the future.

• Date: May 3, 2011
• Time: 9:00 am PST / 12:00 pm EST / 4:00 pm UTC / 6:00 pm CET
• Length: 60 minutes
• Enroll here!

UPDATE :: Enrollment for this class is now closed

Due to popular request, Sonatype has decided to offer a MVN-101 training course in May during European business hours. The training course will be led by Anders Hammar of Devoteam Sweden, a certified Sonatype Training Partner.

Course details:

• MVN-101
• Tuesday May 10, 2011
• European Hours 9:00 am – 4:00 pm CEST (GMT + 02:00)
• ENROLL TODAY!

Maven Mechanics MVN-101 is the premier Java developer training course. It comprehensively covers Maven installation and configuration, explains the motivation behind Maven and gives an overview of related development tools. You will leave this Maven tutorial equipped with a full understanding of the Maven Project Object Model (POM) and a firm grasp of the underlying fundamentals of this development kit including:

• The Maven lifecycle
• Maven plugins and goals
• Multi-module Maven projects
• The contents of the Project Object Model (POM)