If you were unable to attend Sonatype’s last webinar on Build Promotion with Nexus Professional, you can view the presentation recording here. This webinar is an introduction to the Build Promotion capabilities of Nexus Professional, the industry leading repository manager to help companies acquire, manage, and report on open source software artifacts in their software development projects.

The Build Promotion feature in Nexus Professional allows an organization to create a temporary staging repository and to manage the promotion of artifacts from a staging repository to a release repository. This ability to create an isolated, release candidate repository that can be discarded or promoted makes it possible to support the decisions that go into certifying a release.

Upcoming Webinars:

Build Promotion with Nexus Professional

When: Thursday September 9th, 2010 at 10:30 am PDT, 1:30pm EST

Who: Blaine Mincey, Senior Systems Engineer, Sonatype

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Sonatype will be holding a much anticipated webinar on Hudson Integration with Maven Studio for Eclipse next month.  On Tuesday September 28 Senior Systems Engineer at Sonatype, Blaine Mincey, will host a webinar that will show you how Hudson Integration will increase productivity, by allowing you to view the build results from your Hudson jobs within your own IDE.

This webinar will highlight features that are available with the Hudson Integration feature of Maven Studio for Eclipse. It will review the benefits of Hudson Integration directly from your Eclipse development environment.   Finally, it will demonstrate how you can track the status of interesting jobs in Hudson so you know immediately if something needs to be fixed without leaving your IDE.

Hudson Integration with Maven Studio for Eclipse webinar:

• Tuesday September 28, 2010
• 6:00 am PDT, 3:00 pm Europe Summer Time (GMT+02:00)
• To register, please click here

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The last webinar in our series, Build Promotion with Nexus Professional, was a huge success.  Thank you to all who participated! Sonatype is happy to announce another free webinar will be held this Thursday at 6:00 am PDT, 3:00 pm Europe Summer Time (GMT+02:00).

This webinar is an introduction to the Build Promotion capabilities of Nexus Professional, the industry leading repository manager to help companies acquire, manage, and report on open source software artifacts in their software development projects.

If you release software, you will often need to test a release before deploying it to a production system or an externally accessible repository. For example, if you are developing a large, enterprise web application you may want to stage a release candidate to a production system and perform a series of rigorous tests before a release manager makes a decision to either return a system to development or deploy a system to production.

The Build Promotion feature in Nexus Professional allows an organization to create a temporary staging repository and to manage the promotion of artifacts from a staging repository to a release repository. This ability to create an isolated, release candidate repository that can be discarded or promoted makes it possible to support the decisions that go into certifying a release.

To register for this webinar, please click here.

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I’ve seen my fair share of projects migrating from Ant to Maven, and, for a complex project, this migration path can take some time. You have to worry about dependency management, project structure, and retraining an existing team to use Maven and understand the core concepts behind the tool. When you make the shift, you are often affecting development infrastructure for an existing project, and you need to take into account development environments as well as developer’s ideas about how code should be organized and stored in source control. In this post, I’m going to discuss a common pattern I’ve seen in Ant to Maven migrations: how to migrate the monolithic project.

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Sonatype will be presenting at Eclipse Day hosted by Google in California this week.

Each year Google hosts an Eclipse Day and puts together an agenda that includes Eclipse and Google related topics. This year there will be presentations that feature Android, Helios, GWT, EGit, Linux Tools, Eclipse 4.0, EMF, XText and more. Sonatype’s founder, Jason van Zyl, will be presenting on Next Generation Development Infrastructure with Maven, m2eclipse, Nexus and Hudson.

This talk focuses on the Maven Ecosystem and the under-pinnings of technologies that are going to shape the Next Generation Maven Development Stack. While the Maven 3 release retains backward-compatibility with plugins written for Maven 2, the foundational technologies used in Maven are being recast to allow for more space for expansion as Maven starts to expand into newer spaces like OSGi and Polyglot development. In this talk, van Zyl discusses new, emerging technologies and how they fit into the overall approach to the development of a Next Generation Maven Development Stack. This presentation will include an overview of the following technologies:

• Moving Maven from Plexus to Guice
• Continued work to support OSGi development with Tycho
• Support for Polyglot development and alternative languages
• m2eclipse, the primary Eclipse IDE Maven-integration used at Sonatype which is also integrated with STS and JBoss Tools.

Eclipse Day hosted by Google:

• Thursday, August 26, 2010
• 9:00am – 5:00pm
• Googleplex
• 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
• Mountain View, CA

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