The ASF-owned domains: {repo,repo1,repo2}.maven.apache.org
are all CNAMEs (aliases) for the Sonatype-owned domain:
repo.apache.maven.org, which is a CNAME for maven.map.fastly.net,
which is (apparently) Sonatype's CDN service provider.
The Sonatype-owned domains: {repo1,repo2}.maven.org
are CNAMEs for Sonatype's central.maven.org, which is a CNAME for
sonatype.map.fastly.net, which is (again) their CDN service provider.
These two groups resolve to two different IP addresses. At a glance, both
appear to serve the same content, but Sonatype defines the canonical
location for Maven Central to be at repo1.maven.org, which is in the second
group (specifically https://repo1.maven.org/maven2). See
http://central.sonatype.org/pages/consumers.html
repository.apache.org and oss.sonatype.org run instances of Sonatype's
Nexus Repository Manager, which (possibly among others) feed into Maven
Central (I believe, but am not certain, that Sonatype provides the ASF with
a free license for its enterprise version of Nexus)
repository.apache.org is part of ASF infrastructure, and available for ASF
projects to stage and release artifacts.
oss.sonatype.org is made available to the larger open source community by
Sonatype (see http://central.sonatype.org/pages/ossrh-guide.html) so other
open source projects have an easy way to publish their artifacts to Maven
Central.
Maven Central is searchable at https://search.maven.org (domain owned by
Sonatype).
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:39 AM Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
wrote:
> Thanks Roman, Manfred,
>
> It's clear now. Just a last question, what is exactly
> http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ <http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/>
> ?
>
> Jacques
>
>
> Le 01/12/2016 à 23:24, Manfred Moser a écrit :
> > Correct. There are a number of other large repositories that also feed
> into the Central Repo and the ASF has some control over all of it from all
> I know.
> >
> > Manfred
> >
> > Roman Shaposhnik wrote on 2016-12-01 14:23:
> >
> >> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Jacques Le Roux
> >> <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote:
> >>> I'm new to the Maven world (through Gradle), and I wonder: is Maven
> Central
> >>> part of the ASF infrastructure?
> >> No. But it does mirror all of the artifacts released by ASF. The
> >> official ASF Maven repository is at:
> >> http://repository.apache.org
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Roman.
> >>
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