Updated: Nexus has been released and you can see more at nexus.sonatype.org

For all of the Proximity users out there, I just wanted to let you know that you have not been forgotten as Nexus will soon be yours. What is Nexus? The most advanced Maven repository manager brought to you by Sonatype, and the creator of Proximity, Tamás Cservenák. Nexus is intended to be a drop-in for replacement for Proximity and a general purpose Maven Repository Manager.

Tamás has been with for Sonatype for a few months now, quietly working away on our second generation repository manager. Proximity served Maven users well and Tamás has gone even further to provide some very advanced proxying features. I've helped out with the REST APIs and Eugene Kuleshov helped with the indexing and searching capabilities. The most important features are as follows:

• Ability to read Proximity configurations
• Repository proxying and hosting
• Full indexing and searching (including central repository index downloads for remote searching)
• No external resource requirements (i.e. points of failure like databases, ORMs, or content repository stores)
• Stand-alone security model with LDAP support
• AJAX Interface
• Fully compliant WebDAV support (no other repository manager does: run Litmus to verify that)
• Complete REST APIs
• Repository RSS feeds
• On-the-fly repository metadata cleaning/correction
• Enhanced logical routing and aggregation of repositories
• Ability to publish and proxy M2 repositories to M1 clients
• Ability to optimize repository request resolution by group and artifact IDs
• Snapshot cleanup
• Runs out-of-the-box. Just drop it, unzip it and go!

We are starting beta testing with four of our largest clients with a total of eight thousand developers so when Nexus works for them it will most certainly work for everyone else. If you are interested in beta testing we are looking for large scale environments with hundreds of developers right now, but we are also looking for existing Proximity users who can help test the transition from Proximity to Nexus. The source code will be released under the Apache Software License and will be available from a Subversion/GIT repository when we are done beta testing. A special thanks to Tamás who has worked very hard, and been very patient as he's wanted to tell every Proximity user about Nexus for a month now. If you're interested in beta testing we will open this up to the general public this coming Monday.

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Updated: Nexus has been released and you can see more at nexus.sonatype.org

For all of the Proximity users out there, I just wanted to let you know that you have not been forgotten as Nexus will soon be yours. What is Nexus? The most advanced Maven repository manager brought to you by Sonatype, and the creator of Proximity, Tamás Cservenák. Nexus is intended to be a drop-in for replacement for Proximity and a general purpose Maven Repository Manager.

Tamás has been with for Sonatype for a few months now, quietly working away on our second generation repository manager. Proximity served Maven users well and Tamás has gone even further to provide some very advanced proxying features. I've helped out with the REST APIs and Eugene Kuleshov helped with the indexing and searching capabilities. The most important features are as follows:

• Ability to read Proximity configurations
• Repository proxying and hosting
• Full indexing and searching (including central repository index downloads for remote searching)
• No external resource requirements (i.e. points of failure like databases, ORMs, or content repository stores)
• Stand-alone security model with LDAP support
• AJAX Interface
• Fully compliant WebDAV support (no other repository manager does: run Litmus to verify that)
• Complete REST APIs
• Repository RSS feeds
• On-the-fly repository metadata cleaning/correction
• Enhanced logical routing and aggregation of repositories
• Ability to publish and proxy M2 repositories to M1 clients
• Ability to optimize repository request resolution by group and artifact IDs
• Snapshot cleanup
• Runs out-of-the-box. Just drop it, unzip it and go!

We are starting beta testing with four of our largest clients with a total of eight thousand developers so when Nexus works for them it will most certainly work for everyone else. If you are interested in beta testing we are looking for large scale environments with hundreds of developers right now, but we are also looking for existing Proximity users who can help test the transition from Proximity to Nexus. The source code will be released under the Apache Software License and will be available from a Subversion/GIT repository when we are done beta testing. A special thanks to Tamás who has worked very hard, and been very patient as he's wanted to tell every Proximity user about Nexus for a month now. If you're interested in beta testing we will open this up to the general public this coming Monday.

Read more...