This April in Philadelphia there are some exciting events taking place in the open source and enterprise technology communities.  On April 7, 2010 Sonatype will be hosting the Apache Maven Meetup.   The meetup will focus on development infrastructure technologies, offering talks and workshops led by core contributors and package maintainers.

Sessions in two tracks will cover tools such as the Apache Maven build and release manager, Hudson continuous integration engine, Nexus repository manager, Sonar quality server and other technologies widely used by software developers around the world.  Register for the Sonatype Maven Meetup at www.sonatype.com/meetup2010.

April 8-9, 2010 is the 5th Annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference.

Be a part of the premier event for developers, architects, and IT executives. Subjects as expansive and intricate as emerging technology and Open Source require a dynamic forum. This conference provides just that, with industry experts providing up-to-the-minute insight.  ETE 2010 brings together pioneers across the spectrum to discuss the principles, practices, and products that are transforming IT’s ability to drive the success of the enterprise.

Both events are taking place at the Society Hill Sheraton in Philadelphia.  Register today!

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Register today for the Sonatype Maven Meetup being held this April.  The meetup will take place in Philadelphia at the Sheraton Society Hill, on April 7, 2010.

The meetup will focus on development infrastructure technologies, offering talks and workshops led by core contributors and package maintainers.

Sessions in two tracks will cover tools such as the Apache Maven build and release manager, Hudson continuous integration engine, Nexus repository manager, Sonar quality server and other technologies widely used by software developers around the world.

Register for the Sonatype Maven Meetup at www.sonatype.com/meetup2010

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Word keeps spreading about our Java.net Maven Rescue Misson taking place Friday March 5, 2010.  And Maven users and non-Maven users alike are excited to take advantage of the offer.  If you’re not sure whether to take up Sonatype on their offer to migrate your Maven Repository infrastructure over to our hosted Nexus OSS instance, this post offers some great insight.

Providing free maven repos I think has a lot of benefits and not just for maven users. For example, this should benefit all dependency management tools that are built on top of maven repos… Another benefit is being able to standardize on maven repositories, hopefully preventing users from searching where they can find your artifacts. I’ve wasted a lot of time in the past trying to find valid repositories where I could find artifacts for a project I was wanting to use.

To read the full post, click here.

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Good news travels fast, and word about our Java.net Maven Repository Rescue Mission is getting a positive response.

I guess we can say the java.net repository is a little broken…But there is a good news! Sonatype is opening it’s Nexus OSS instance to all java.net projects.

This blog entry details a few examples of the headaches that the Java.net repository has caused.  You can read the full blog entry here.  As promised, on March 5th we will start servicing all requests to switch Java.net projects over from their Maven Repository infrastructure to our Nexus OSS Instance.

If you use Maven and deploy on java.net, I think that’s a good opportunity to save pain and improve your release cycle!

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There are numerous problems with the Maven repositories on Java.net, and individual projects are being penalized for poor development infrastructure at Java.net. We hear no end of complaints about the poor quality of Maven Repositories at Java.net: mixing of Maven 1 and Maven 2 repositories, the mixing of releases and snapshots, lack of javadocs, sources, signatures, bad project metadata, and general inability of Java.net to provide any coherent means of delivering valid repository content to the Maven community.

This is not a problem with any particular project at Java.net, it’s the infrastructure provided by Java.net that isn’t up to par. You need to provide a decent Maven repository infrastructure for projects to deploy their content to, and you need to provide instructions about best practices on how accomplish this properly. Java.net has done neither, so I figured instead of continuing to complain –and continuing to field the complaints of Maven users– I’m going to do something about it.

On March 5th, 2010 Juven Xu and Marvin Froeder from Sonatype will start servicing any and all requests from Java.net projects to migrate their Maven Repository infrastructure over to our hosted Nexus OSS instance. We will, of course, continue to service requests after March 5th, but March 5th will be set aside to specifically help Java.net projects get switched over and tested.

We generally ask that projects interested in our OSS hosting service familiarize themselves with our guide for OSS Repository Hosting. If you follow the guide and make your request we will process the requests on a first come, first serve basis on March 5th. We’ve helped close to 100 projects now and we’d love to help the projects at Java.net!

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