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.

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Intuit has streamlined its software development lifecycle by migrating to Maven and Nexus Professional.

Intuit, Inc. provides business and financial management solutions for small and medium sized businesses, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

The company offers QuickBooks financial and business management software and services, technical support, financial supplies, and Web site design and hosting services for small businesses; and small business payroll products and services, as well as merchant services comprising credit and debit card processing, electronic check conversion, and automated clearing house services.

It also provides TurboTax income tax preparation products and services for consumers and small business owners; Lacerte and ProSeries professional tax products and services, and QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition and the QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program for accounting professionals. In addition, Intuit offers outsourced online banking services for banks and credit unions, as well as Quicken personal finance products and services, Intuit real estate solutions. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Business problem:

Prior to implementing Maven and Nexus Professional, Java projects were mostly built with Ant, and sometimes by the IDE. After migrating builds to Maven, software artifacts were not managed using Nexus.  The artifacts were not reliably available and builds were not always reliable. Read more…

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The latest edition of Repository Management with Nexus, Edition 2.1, has been released. This edition includes new content about Nexus 1.5.0 Open Source and Enterprise LDAP. Edition 2.1 also contains almost 100 corrections which were driven by the community.

• Read the Book for FREE online,
• Download the Repository Managment with Nexus PDF,
• Purchase a Printed Copy for $20.06 from Lulu, or
• Read the Book on Scribd

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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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The following demonstration video was shown in the Sonatype booth at last month’s Jfokus 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. This video provides a quick walkthrough of the major features in Nexus Scheduled Jobs.

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