Nexus Professional: Architecture

Modular and Extensible

The modular and extensible architecture at the foundation of Nexus Professional is based on the same technology as Apache Maven.

Nexus Professional provides access to a number of components and subsystems and a rich interface for plugin developers via the Plexus container.

Plexus is a modular, component-oriented, IoC container which serves as the bus for coordinating all of the systems and modules required to manage repositories.

Rich ExtJS-based GUI

The Nexus Professional graphical user interface (GUI) is based on ExtJS, a rich set of AJAX components that are used to create a first-class GUI experience on par with a desktop application. Just as Nexus provides a rich API for plugin, the Nexus GUI also provides hooks for customization.

Open Services Platform

Both Apache Maven and Nexus Professional GUI interact with a series of well-documented representational state transfer (REST) services, making it easy to customize Nexus behavior. All you need to do is open the specifications for these services and start writing custom utilities. Look on the Sonatype blogs for in Ruby, Groovy, and Python.

Nexus Pro Features

Nexus Testimonials

"2008 saw the emergence of a new leader in this field, in the form of Nexus. Nexus is easy to use and configure, making administration of a Maven repository a real pleasure."
John Ferguson Smart, JavaWorld.com, 12/27/08

"The documentation is excellent and the application is very intuitive. This team repository greatly increases our team productivity. Thank you so much"
Luke Bishop from Sonatype blog comments 1/7/2009.

"At Intuit, we recognize that as builds grow and the teams who create them change over time, swift, accurate repository management becomes critical. Nexus provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use open source solution that lets teams and developers track, search, organize and access build components."
Kaizer Sogiawala, Software Configuration Management Engineer, Intuit.

"We have adopted Maven for all our software development projects and have started using Nexus to better support our development processes. The support for promotion and procurement workflows in Nexus Professional now expands Nexus with a robust set of additional features which make it easier for us to maintain consistency between our development, testing and production environments."
Chris Maki, Principal Software Engineer, Overstock.com

"We have adopted Nexus Professional to better manage not only our own repositories but also the depending repositories on the net. And with the support for Staging and Artifact procurement we have more controle over the artifacts produced and used by Marvelution projects. Another nice feature is the Maven Settings templates, it allows users to configure the repositories easier and quicker. Overall Nexus is the perfect platform to manage all your required repositories, being hosted or proxied, it is easy to use and allows for fast searching and uploading of artifacts."
Mark Rekveld, Marvelution