Nexus Book Edition 1.3: Printable PDF and Archiva Migrations
By Tim OBrien
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Announcing the availability of Repository Management with Nexus, Edition 1.3. Learn Nexus today by:
- Reading this book on the Sonatype site
- Downloading the PDF from Sonatype
- Reading this book on Scribd
This edition contains three major changes from Edition 1.2, and a series of smaller changes that are captured in the release notes included at the end of this blog post:
- A new appendix detailing the migration process for hosted and proxy repositories from Archiva to Nexus.
- General formatting and bug fixes throughout the book.
- Professional print-quality PDF: The PDF now contains vector art, screenshots sized for print resolution, better fonts, and has been resized to an industry-standard print size.
Repository Management with Sonatype Nexus
The following changes were introduced in Edition 1.3 on August 17, 2009:
- Added Appendix B, Migrating to Nexus from Archiva which contains a discussion
of migrating from an existing Archiva installation to a Nexus
installation. (NXBOOK-62) - Added a Drop Shadow and Border to the following
figures:- Added a Border to Figure 4.4 (NXBOOK-87)
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Added Border and Shadow to Figure 4.5 (NXBOOK-88)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 4.6 (NXBOOK-89)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 4.7 (NXBOOK-90)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 5.4 (NXBOOK-91)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 8.3 (NXBOOK-76)
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Added Border and Shadow to Figure 8.4 (NXBOOK-92)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 8.8 (NXBOOK-93)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 8.9 (NXBOOK-94)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 11.1 (NXBOOK-100)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 11.2 (NXBOOK-102)
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Added Border and Shadow to Figure 11.3 (NXBOOK-103)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 11.4 (NXBOOK-104)
- Added Border and shadow to Figure 12.1 (NXBOOK-106)
- Added Border and Shadow to Figure 12.2 (NXBOOK-107)
- Added a Border to figure A.3 (NXBOOK-108)
- Fixed a typo in Section 6.3.4, “Google Analytics Plugin”.
(NXBOOK-42) - Fixed a mismatch between a figure and some copy in Section 9.6, “Managing Staging Repositories in Nexus”. (NXBOOK-53)
- Added a missing reference in Section 9.7, “Managing Staging Repository with the Nexus Maven Plugin”. (NXBOOK-55)
- Fixed spacing issues in Table 9.1, “Identifiers for New Project”. (NXBOOK-110)
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Fixed Unescaped Variable Reference in Section 10.3.2. (NXBOOK-41)
The following improvements were made to the Nexus Book PDF:
- Resized book to Crown Quarto (7.444" x 9.681"). (NXBOOK-119)
- Configured alternating margins for the PDF copy of the book.
(NXBOOK-118) - Modified Figure Images for Print PDF. Bitmap images scaled to
improve print quality:- Added Print Resolution Version of Figure 6.1
(NXBOOK-72) -
Added Print Resolution Version of Figure 8.1
(NXBOOK-74) - Added Print Resolution version for Figure 8.2
(NXBOOK-75) - Added Print Resolution Version of Figure 9.1
(NXBOOK-77) - Added Print Resolution Version of Figure 9.1
(NXBOOK-78) - Added Print Resolution Version of Figure 9.2
(NXBOOK-79)
- Added Print Resolution Version of Figure 6.1
- Fixed Code Overflow Issues in:
- Fix Code Overflow Problems in Example 6.1
(NXBOOK-73) - Fix Code Overflow Problem in Example 9.1
(NXBOOK-97) - Fix the Code Overflow Problem in Section 9.4.4
(NXBOOK-98) -
Fix Code Overflow Issue in Section 10.3.3
(NXBOOK-99) - Fix Code Overflow After Figure 11.1 (NXBOOK-80)
- Fix Code Overflow Problems in Example 6.1
- Upgrade Nexus Book build to use Docbkx Plugin version 2.0.9.
(NXBOOK-70) - Configure Nexus Book build to use fop-images-pdf for inclusion
of Vector-based figures. (NXBOOK-71) - Remove Header from Nexus Book PDF. (NXBOOK-120)
- Nexus Book PDF Body Text now Justified. (NXBOOK-121)
- All Fonts are Bundled in the Book PDF (NXBOOK-127):
- Monospace Font is now Courier New (NXBOOK-126)
- Body Font is now Times New Roman (NXBOOK-125)
- Title Font is now Arial Bold (NXBOOK-122)
Written by Tim OBrien
Tim is a Software Architect with experience in all aspects of software development from project inception to developing scaleable production architectures for large-scale systems during critical, high-risk events such as Black Friday. He has helped many organizations ranging from small startups to Fortune 100 companies take a more strategic approach to adopting and evaluating technology and managing the risks associated with change.
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