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Chapter 13. Sonatype CLM for Nexus Pro

Sonatype Nexus is a powerful repository manager available as open source edition, Nexus Open Source, as well as a fully supported, commercial edition, Nexus Professional.

Both provide features such as

  • Hosting repositories
  • Proxying remote repositories
  • Deployment target for third-party components
  • Secure access to the Central Repository
  • Grouping proxy and hosted repositories as well as snapshot and release repositories for simplified client configuration
  • Hosting component documentation web sites
  • Fine-grained security model
  • LDAP integration
  • Component search

Extensible documentation about Nexus features as well as instructions for installation, configuration and usage are available in the free book Repository Management with Nexus available at http://www.sonatype.com/Support/Books/Repository-Management-with-Nexus.

Nexus exposes all components via HTTP and can therefore be easily integrated with other tools. For more powerful integration than component retrieval, Nexus can be integrated by facilitating the REST API, used by the Nexus user interface and provided to other integrations. For more Nexus internal extension, the creation of additional plugins provides a wealth of possibilities.

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The Nexus Professional Edition is using the same Nexus core as the open source edition and merely adds further functionality with additionally installed plugins.

The additional features provided by Nexus Professional include:

  • Procurement Suite for component availability control
  • Staging Suite for controlled release process and build promotion
  • Enhanced LDAP support and integration with Atlassian Crowd
  • Maven settings.xml management
  • User account self serve
  • Component validation and verification