Nexus / Maven如何不通过Nexus代理所有内容

Question

I only want to use Nexus for our projects libraries and not deal with the overhead of resources and proxying every possible repository someone might use. Is this possible and simple to accomplish?

Answer 1

It's more than advisable to have a company hosted artifact repository manager. Together with repository groups and some basic routing rules, this will:

• Decrease your external traffic for artifacts.

• Decrease the amount of time required in order to download the artifacts.

• Help you control where artifacts are obtained from.

• Help you control what artifacts end up in your project.

• Allow you to keep working, even if Maven Central is (for whatever reason) down, or you're experiencing Internet issues (or lack a connection to the Internet).

• Provide consistency.

Running an artifact repository manager on your dev machine is actually often a good practice as well.

I'm not quite sure why you're like to not have all the artifacts served through your own repository, if you already have one, as this will benefit you quite a lot.

If your really must use your repository server just for your internal artifacts, then you'll need to add additional <repository/> sections to your pom.xml files. Instead of doing this, you can simply use your repository manager, use a group repository and define in your settings.xml that your company repository is acting as a <mirrorOf/> Maven Central.

Answer 2

Yes, you can do that. If you dont use a settings.xml mirror setting you can add the Nexus repositories to your settings.xml or pom.xml and proceed.

Obviously (for the reasons mentioned above) this is not ideal, but its possible ;-)