Tame Your Dependencies With Free Eclipse Plugin
Sonatype recently released a free beta version of the Sonatype Insight Plugin for Eclipse that allows you to more efficiently manage and select Java components. It is part of the Sonatype Insight product line that helps organizations take advantage of open source-based development while improving quality and reducing security and licensing risks.
See what components are used, which versions, and when updates are available
We want to make component based development as easy as possible by providing you the tools to choose the right components from the beginning to speed development, improve quality, and reduce costly rework. This plugin, the first of a series of development tools, helps you tame the issues typically associated with utilizing open source Java components, including:
- Determining when new component versions are available and making informed update decisions
- Understanding what versions of each component are used in your project
- Identifying where specific components are used
- Updating components throughout your project
The plugin is build tool agnostic, and so works with all Java projects in general (Java, PDE, Maven, etc.).
This is just the beginning. We’ll be adding features to help you choose components that meet your security, quality, and licensing standards by providing useful information about each component right in the IDE. For example, we’ll alert you when a component, or one of its dependencies has known security vulnerabilities. You’ll also be able to tell how each component or dependency is licensed without having to hunt through the code yourself.
So tame your dependencies today and get the Sonatype Insight Plugin for Eclipse.
How to Use Aether in Maven Plugins
When developing plugins for Maven 3.0 plugin developers that need to perform dependency resolution have a choice: they can continue to use the Maven 2.x API, or they can use the new Maven 3 API which makes use of Aether. In this post, I’m going to walk through some of the API features that are now available to plugin developers in Aether.
If your plugin needs to be compatible with Maven 2.x, take a look at the sources of Maven Dependency Plugin. This example provides a sophisticated example of using the Maven 2.x dependency resolution API. But if legacy Maven support is of no concern to you, read on and see how the Maven 3.x API handles the job.
What's in Maven 3.0 for Plugin Authors?
While Maven 3 is a dramatic improvement over Maven 2 from the perspective of performance, extensibility, and architecture, most end-users are motivated by plugins. This has been true about Maven from the beginning, while the framework has value, it is the plugins that make the difference. This blog focuses on the changes that are of interest to plugin authors.
Nexus 1.5.0 Highlights: Open Sourcing Nexus LDAP Integration
With the 1.5.0 release of Nexus, Sonatype is opening up the current LDAP features in Pro, and making them a part of Nexus Open Source. Starting with this release, Nexus Open Source users will be able to integrate with LDAP, Active Directory, and Atlassian Crowd servers (via LDAP). Nexus is the only repository manager with both Authentication AND Authorization (group / role mapping) via LDAP and now this integration is free for all to use.
As we transition this feature to Nexus Open Source, we are also announcing a new Nexus Enterprise LDAP plugin that will support more advanced deployment use cases including support for federated LDAP servers and more intelligent caching of authentication information. (more…)
Meet the Nexus Remote Repository Browsing Plugin
Having used Nexus since it was a beta release and having also written a Plexus component-style Nexus plugin (the nexus-ldap realm), I was curious about the new Nexus Plugin API introduced in Nexus 1.4.0. To try it out, I asked two of our developers here at Devoteam Sweden to develop the Nexus Remote Repository Browsing Plugin – a Nexus plugin that makes it possible to directly browse the remote Maven repository of a proxy repository within the Nexus UI. The plugin has been contributed to Nexus OSS and will be released as a part of the upcoming 1.5.0 release. In this blog post, I will talk a little bit about the plugin and its use case. (more…)
