Adding maven nexus repo to my pom xml

Question

I have installed nexus on my local machine  I want my pom file to point to this repo  How can I add my custom repository to my pom xml file

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First of all I can highly recommend reading the Nexus book. It will explain the benefits of using a Maven repository manager.

There is a section on how to configure your Maven build to use Nexus:

http://www.sonatype.com/books/nexus-book/reference/config.html

This leads me to question why you altering your POM file? I suspect what you really want to do is setup Nexus as a remote repository mirror. This is done in your Maven settings file.

The following tells Maven use Nexus as your default repository (Instead of Maven Central)

<settings>
  ..
  ..
  <mirrors>
    <mirror>
      <id>nexus</id>
      <url>http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
      <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
    </mirror>
  </mirrors>

This is desired behaviour since your Nexus repository is configured to cache artifacts retrieved from Central (which is good for build performance).

Note:

The "public" repository group could include other repositories proxied by your Nexus instance (Not just Maven Central). You probabily want this behaviour, as it centralizes all repository management. It just makes your build less portable for people outside of your organization.

User · Answer

If you don t want or you cannot modify the settings xml file  you can create a new one in your root project  and call maven passing it as a parameter with the -s parameter     mvn COMMAND     -s settings xml

User · Answer

It seems the answers here do not support an enterprise use case where a Nexus server has multiple users and has project-based isolation  protection  based on user id ALONG with using an automated build  CI  system like Jenkins  You would not be able to create a settings xml file to satisfy the different user ids needed for different projects  I am not sure how to solve this  except by opening Nexus up to anonymous access for reading repositories  unless the projects could store a project-specific generic user id in their pom xml

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From the Apache Maven site     lt project gt           lt repositories gt       lt repository gt         lt id gt my-internal-site lt  id gt         lt url gt http   myserver repo lt  url gt       lt  repository gt     lt  repositories gt         lt  project gt     The repositories for download and deployment are defined by the repositories and distributionManagement elements of the POM  However  certain settings such as username and password should not be distributed along with the pom xml  This type of information should exist on the build server in the settings xml   - Apache Maven site - settings reference   lt servers gt       lt server gt           lt id gt server001 lt  id gt           lt username gt my login lt  username gt           lt password gt my password lt  password gt           lt privateKey gt   user home   ssh id dsa lt  privateKey gt           lt passphrase gt some passphrase lt  passphrase gt           lt filePermissions gt 664 lt  filePermissions gt           lt directoryPermissions gt 775 lt  directoryPermissions gt           lt configuration gt  lt  configuration gt       lt  server gt   lt  servers gt

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From Maven - Settings Reference  The repositories for download and deployment are defined by the repositories and distributionManagement elements of the POM  However  certain settings such as username and password should not be distributed along with the pom xml  This type of information should exist on the build server in the settings xml    lt settings xmlns  http   maven apache org SETTINGS 1 0 0    xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance    xsi schemaLocation  http   maven apache org SETTINGS 1 0 0                   http   maven apache org xsd settings-1 0 0 xsd  gt           lt servers gt       lt server gt         lt id gt server001 lt  id gt         lt username gt my login lt  username gt         lt password gt my password lt  password gt         lt privateKey gt   user home   ssh id dsa lt  privateKey gt         lt passphrase gt some passphrase lt  passphrase gt         lt filePermissions gt 664 lt  filePermissions gt         lt directoryPermissions gt 775 lt  directoryPermissions gt         lt configuration gt  lt  configuration gt       lt  server gt     lt  servers gt         lt  settings gt    id  This is the ID of the server  not of the user to login as  that matches the id element of the repository mirror that Maven tries to connect to   username  password  These elements appear as a pair denoting the login and password required to authenticate to this server   privateKey  passphrase  Like the previous two elements  this pair specifies a path to a private key  default is   user home   ssh id dsa  and a passphrase  if required  The passphrase and password elements may be externalized in the future  but for now they must be set plain-text in the settings xml file   filePermissions  directoryPermissions  When a repository file or directory is created on deployment  these are the permissions to use  The legal values of each is a three digit number corrosponding to  nix file permissions  ie  664  or 775   Note  If you use a private key to login to the server  make sure you omit the  element  Otherwise  the key will be ignored   All you should need is the id  username and password  The id and URL should be defined in your pom xml like this    lt repositories gt               lt repository gt           lt id gt acme-nexus-releases lt  id gt           lt name gt acme nexus lt  name gt           lt url gt https   nexus acme net content repositories releases lt  url gt       lt  repository gt           lt  repositories gt    If you need a username and password to your server  you should encrypt it  Maven Password Encryption

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From maven setting reference  you can not put your username password in a pom xml     The repositories for download and deployment are defined by the repositories and distributionManagement elements of the POM  However  certain settings such as username and password should not be distributed along with the pom xml  This type of information should exist on the build server in the settings xml    You can first add a repository in your pom and then add the username password in the  MAVEN HOME conf settings xml        lt servers gt       lt server gt           lt id gt my-internal-site lt  id gt           lt username gt yourUsername lt  username gt           lt password gt yourPassword lt  password gt       lt  server gt     lt  servers gt

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