What is the difference between Nexus and Maven

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What is the difference between Nexus and Maven   What is a basic scenario of usage only Maven  What about a scenario considering only Nexus  And how it looks when I want to use both

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This has a good general description  https   gephi wordpress com tag maven   Let me make a few statement that can put the difference in focus    We migrated our code base from Ant to Maven All 3rd party librairies have been uploaded to Nexus  Maven is using Nexus as a source for libraries  Basic functionalities of a repository manager like Sonatype are    Managing project dependencies  Artifacts  amp  Metadata  Proxying external repositories  and deployment of packaged binaries and JARs to share those artifacts with other developers and end-users

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Sonatype Nexus and Apache Maven are two pieces of software that often work together but they do very different parts of the job  Nexus provides a repository while Maven uses a repository to build software   Here s a quote from  What is Nexus        Nexus manages software  artifacts  required for development  If you develop software  your builds can download dependencies from Nexus and can publish artifacts to Nexus creating a new way to share artifacts within an organization  While Central repository has always served as a great convenience for developers you shouldn t be hitting it directly  You should be proxying Central with Nexus and maintaining your own repositories to ensure stability within your organization    With Nexus you can completely control access to  and deployment of  every artifact in your organization from a single location    And here is a quote from  Maven and Nexus Pro  Made for Each Other  explaining how Maven uses repositories      Maven leverages the concept of a repository by retrieving the artifacts necessary to build an application and deploying the result of the build process into a repository  Maven uses the concept of structured repositories so components can be retrieved to support the build  These components or dependencies include libraries  frameworks  containers  etc  Maven can identify components in repositories  understand their dependencies  retrieve all that are needed for a successful build  and deploy its output back to repositories when the build is complete    So  when you want to use both you will have a repository managed by Nexus and Maven will access this repository

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Whatever I understood from my learning and what I think it is is here. I am Quoting some part from a book i learnt this things. Nexus Repository Manager and Nexus Repository Manager OSS started as a repository manager supporting the Maven repository format. While it supports many other repository formats now, the Maven repository format is still the most common and well supported format for build and provisioning tools running on the JVM and beyond. This chapter shows example configurations for using the repository manager with Apache Maven and a number of other tools. The setups take advantage of merging many repositories and exposing them via a repository group. Setting this up is documented in the chapter in addition to the configuration used by specific tools.

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