What is Nexus? Nexus Review, Features

Nexus is a repository management software released by Sonatype. It is often used to build Maven private servers, so some people call Nexus a "Maven repository manager."

About Nexus

Nexus is a powerful Maven repository manager that greatly simplifies the maintenance of internal repositories and access to external repositories. With Nexus, you can fully control access to and deploy each Artifact in the repository you maintain in one place. Nexus is an "out-of-the-box" system that does not require a database. It uses a file system plus Lucene to organize data. Nexus uses ExtJS to develop the interface, uses Restlet to provide complete REST APIs, and is integrated with Eclipse through m2eclipse. Nexus supports WebDAV and LDAP security authentication.