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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Sonatype is pleased to announce version 1.5 of the Nexus Migration Plugin. This version contains an updated implementation of our Artifactory to Nexus migration tool. If you are currently running Artifactory and you want to migrate to Nexus, all you need to do is:

1. Create a System Export from Artifactory
2. Install Nexus with the Nexus Migration Plugin
3. Import Your Artifactory System Export to Nexus
4. Configure the Artifactory Bridge to seamlessly serve artifacts to existing clients

You can use the Nexus Migration Plugin with Nexus Open Source or Nexus Professional. To get started, download Nexus Open Source or Nexus Professional, then download the Nexus Migration Plugin. Read Appendix A of the Nexus Book and learn how to:

• Install the Nexus Migration Plugin
• Create a System Export in Artifactory
• Import an Artifactory System Backup into Nexus
• Configure Repository Mapping and Import Settings
• Map Legacy Artifactory URLs to Nexus

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The Nexus 1.7.2 release offers an improved search interface making it even easier to locate the libraries and artifacts you need in Nexus.  Sonatype has published a version of Nexus 1.7.2 on http://repository.sonatype.org which contains some dramatic improvements to the search interface.   Download the new Nexus Open Source or Nexus Professional release and start searching for artifacts.

What is new in the Nexus 1.7.2 search interface?

• Search results now link directly to the latest version of a matching artifact.
• Selecting a search result immediately displays information about the matching artifact.  You can browse artifact information from the search interface.
• (Nexus Professional) Archive browsing and artifact metadata are available from the search interface.
• Matching artifacts of different types (pom, jar, war, zip, etc.) can be downloaded from the search results page.

This release takes the effort out of searching for artifacts in Nexus.  Here are some sceenshots of the new interface now available on http://repository.sonatype.org and soon to be available in the 1.7.2 release of Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional.

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In the previous posts in this series, we’ve talked about how a repository manger changes the development cycle. In this post, I’m going to talk about how a repository manager can be used as a way to interact with third parties. Specifically, I’m going to talk about vendors and partners.

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In the first part of this series, I gave you a glimpse at the big picture of repository management, and I listed some common anti-patterns present in systems that haven’t yet installed a repository manager. In this post, I’m going to focused on the benefits a repository manager has on the development cycle. How does using a repository manager change the way your developers will approach development? What problems does it solve? And what possibilities does it introduce?

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