Nexus and Maven (ST): setup

I have installed Maven (ST) in /home/centos/apache-maven-3.5.0/.

My m2 repo is in /home/centos/.m2/repository

To test the m2 repo, I "git clone https://github.com/gabrielf/maven-samples", then "mvn package"

"ls /home/centos/.m2/repository" shows that stuff is actually pulled from the maven central repo https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ , you should see plenty of this in the logs :

"Downloading: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/2.5/maven-resources-plugin-2.5.jar"

I edit the settings in /home/centos/apache-maven-3.5.0/conf/settings.xml to incorporate this setup https://books.sonatype.com/nexus-book/3.0/reference/maven.html#maven-sect-single-group

I have installed Nexus in /home/centos/nexus30/. Make sure you increase the file descriptors before you start.

"cd /home/centos/nexus30/nexus-3.5.1-02/bin/" and "./nexus start".

Login at http://localhost:8081 using admin/admin123 , go to http://localhost:8081/#admin/repository/repositories and check that "maven central" is already preconfigured with http://localhost:8081/repository/maven-central/ URL. You can browse the Nexus content at http://localhost:8081/#browse/browse/components:maven-central (it should be empty at this stage)

Clear the local Maven (ST) repo "rm -rf /home/centos/.m2/repository/*" and run again "mvn package". This time Maven should retrieve the artifacts from Nexus:

Downloaded: http://localhost:8081/repository/maven-public/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/2.5/maven-resources-plugin-2.5.pom

Browsing again http://localhost:8081/#browse/browse/components:maven-central should show that all artifacts are cached in Nexus.

In case of issues, check the logs /home/centos/nexus30/sonatype-work/nexus3/log (nexus.log, request.log, jvm.log) for details.

Of course you can use the nexus docker way https://hub.docker.com/r/sonatype/nexus3/

PS: (ST) stands for STINKS . Maven STINKS like a wet rotten dirty skunk. Use Gradle instead.