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Nexus Open Source Security: Video Walkthrough of Major Features

This video was used as a demonstration reel at January’s Jfokus 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. It provides a useful walk through of the major features of Nexus Security, including user roles, groups, and privileges. If you are new to Nexus, or if you are evaluating the tool, this five minute video gives you an overview of the UI used to manage Nexus Open Source security.

Highlights of this demonstration of Nexus Security:

Time (M:SS)
Note
0:20 Logging into Nexus.
0:29 Listing and managing Nexus Users
0:38 Adding a Nexus User
1:00 Assigning User Roles
1:18 Browsing a User’s Role Tree
1:40 Tracing a Privilege to a Role
2:04 Listing Different Classes of Users
2:26 Managing Nexus Roles
2:54 Creating a Custom Nexus Role
3:52 Managing Nexus Privileges
4:26 Creating a Custom Privilege Set
 

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Searching for Artifacts in Nexus: Demo of Major Features

When Jason van Zyl and Anders Hammar presented at Jfokus 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden last month, they asked me to put together a demonstration of various core features of Nexus. In this post, we take a look at the demonstration of the Nexus search interface. While this video lacks a soundtrack, they are a good overview of the major features available in the Nexus search interface.

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How to Customize the Nexus Logo in Nexus Professional

Nexus Professional 1.5.0 ships with a simple branding plugin that makes it easy to add your own logo to the Nexus UI.   In this post, you will learn how to install the Nexus Branding Plugin and how to configure Nexus to use your own custom logo.

Step 1: Create a custom logo. If you want to create a drop-in replacement for the default logo, create a 248×50 logo with a transparent background and save it as a PNG.  In the video that accompanies this blog post, you’ll see that I have created a 248×50 transparent PNG that has the logo of a fictitious company named “myCorp++”. Read more…

 

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Frankel’s Review of Maven: The Complete Reference

Nicolas Frankel wrote a quick review of Maven: The Complete Reference, and it is positive. Here is his conclusion:

This book is top quality and free: what can I say? If you’re a beginner in Maven, you’ll find a real stable base to learn from. If you need to update your knowledge, you will find a wealth of information. If you’re a Maven guru, please contribute to the Assembly plugin’s chapter. I can only give a warm thank you for Sonatype’s effort for giving this quality book to the community.

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Browsing Archives and Javadoc: Nexus and m2eclipse

The following video is a demonstration of archive browsing and Javadoc browsing in Nexus Professional 1.5.0. This video also demonstrates the use of m2eclipse to retrieve source and Javadoc JARs from a repository manager.

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