Nexus Hosted Repositories: Video Walkthrough of Major Features
By Tim OBrien
2 minute read time
This demonstration video was used at our booth at last month's Jfokus 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. It provides a quick, audio-less overview of some of the major features of Nexus Hosted repositories:
Highlights of this demonstration reel:
Time (M:SS) | Notes |
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0:29 | List of default hosted repositories. Nexus ships with three hosted repositories: releases, snapshots, and 3rd party. |
0:45 | Artifact Upload - Nexus allows you to upload artifacts or collections of related artifacts under the same GAV to a hosted repository. |
1:30 | Browsing storage - When you browse storage for a hosted repository, you are browsing the contents that are stored locally in the Nexus instance. |
1:45 | Browsing archives - this is a feature that is available in Nexus Professional. Just click on an archive under Browse Storage and Nexus will open up a Browse Archive tab. |
1:57 | Browsing the repository index - each repository in Nexus is associated with an index. This Nexus index allows tools like Nexus and m2eclipse to quickly locate artifacts in a repository. |
2:05 | Manipulating Artifact Metadata - you can modify, view, and search repository metadata that is associated with each repository artifact. |
2:13 | Custom Metadata - you can define your own custom metadata |
2:40 | Walkthrough of the Nexus Hosted Repository configuration options. |
3:05 | Defining available mirrors for Hosted Repositories |
3:23 | Hosted repository summary information |
3:35 | Searching custom metadata |
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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