Here, we often install nexus under a standard tomcat install, and it just
works, sometimes sharing with Jenkins.

Seems not to be a problem, compared to other heavy-weights like the ones
from a major Java Tools supplier I wouldn't dare to name here, which end up
needing to use a full, stand-alone install for each instance.

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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Niranjan Rao <[email protected]> wrote:

> Barrie,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> When I said "shared server", I meant that we want to have multiple
> applications on the same server - repository application will be one of
> them. I don't know what we will be putting on this server, yet, but one
> thing is for sure, it has to multi task. Based on what you said, it
> seems to be possible.
>
> Other information was very helpful.
>
> thanks for the help,
>
> Niranjan
>
> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 13:16 +0930, Barrie Treloar wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Niranjan Rao <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I have been researching options for setting up internal maven
> repository
> > > - free software. Based on my research it seems like nexus is most
> > > recommended choice.
> > >
> > > Wondering if people here have any opinions/suggestions.
> >
> > Nexus "Open Source" works (http://nexus.sonatype.org/download-nexus.html
> )
> > Archiva works (http://archiva.apache.org/)
> >
> > Both are open source projects.
> >
> > You'd have to check out the features sets to compare, but I suspect if
> > you picked either you wouldn't have a problem.
> >
> > > Ours is a small setup with less than 20 developers. Ideally we would
> > > like to share servers for multiple tasks and would prefer if we can put
> > > behind apache.
> >
> > These tend to be standalone instances, its not something you need to
> > put behind apache.
> >
> > Why do you want to "share servers"?
> > One repository manager instance is plenty.
> > Once the repo manager has downloaded the artifact it doesn't do much
> > but serve it out again, once each developer has a local copy the repo
> > manager doesn't do anything but idle.
> >
> > > We have limited/slow network bandwidth and is one of the important
> > > reasons for setting up the repository.
> >
> > This is a good reason, speed of downloading is better since its all
> > local network traffic.
> >
> > > Other reasons such as using same
> > > versions of dependencies etc are of course valid reasons.
> >
> > You dont get this from a repo manager.
> > You get this from maven and locking down versions in your poms and
> > using enforcer and enable the convergence rule
> >
> http://maven.apache.org/enforcer/enforcer-rules/dependencyConvergence.html
> >
> > If you want to have a repo manager that contains only "sanctioned"
> > artifacts I think you are need to buy Nexus Pro.
> > I dont know if Archiva has this feature.
> > Or you need to manually work this process somehow.
> >
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