Sorry to hear about your bad experience, but it's a fact that lots of people have got their MRM up and running in very little time. (However, I always talk about half a day, not minutes.) There could be a need of some tweaking after that, but it should at least work initially.
/Anders On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Joachim Durchholz <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to give the feedback: I've been told that installing a repository and > an MRM is a breeze, takes a one-minute-install, etc. etc. > > I should have read the implied fine print: This will work only for a > strictly local install, and even then, there are snags. > > 1) When sitting behind a firewall in a Windows world, Java software has > trouble connecting to the outside world. Neither Sun nor Oracle ever > bothered to properly interface with NTLM, leaving the task to third-party > developers that had sometimes more, sometimes less success. MRMs are no > exception to that rule. > > 2) Getting the caching and proxying settings properly configured turned > out to be really difficult. Nexus ultimately failed with that - for some > reason, it would never work. I could Artifactory get to do my bidding, but > the entire experience took me a full two days of work. For both products, > one of the bigger problems was that error messages were not detailed enough. > > 3) Configuration was sometimes needlessly difficult. Nexus is a point in > case - what's really just a simple set of fallbacks where to get your > artifacts from turned out to be a bedazzling maze of "repositories", > "routing", and something else I forgot (or maybe my memory is inventing > that, I have been fighting too many different problems to keep track of all > details). > Artifactory did a better job at making individual parts of the > configuration testable, but some error situations from an Active Directory > LDAP were utterly misleading. (I eventually gave up on LDAP, I found > Artifactory's permission system utterly confusing and it wouldn't do what I > wanted - here, Nexus was better.) > > Some may remember that I was quite resistant to drink the MRM kool-aid. > I was even heavily scolded for that. > Well... what should I say... I don't consider myself an utter idiot, yet > my resistance was all too well-founded, it seems. The message was "five > minutes", neither MRM lived up to that promise. > > <RANT MODE> I'M SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THAT MONEY-MAKING-MOTIVATED > MISLABELING THAT HAS BECOME SO COMMON. At least the Apache guys never > claimed that configuring it was easy, but in the Java world, everybody is > trying to sell his Snake Oil relabelled as Kool-Aid.</RANT MODE> > > Sorry. That needed to be blown off. > If you guys hadn't made so unrealistic and misleading promises, I might > have praised what's working (which is quite a lot actually) instead of > criticizing what isn't (which ultimately made Nexus fail, and Artifactory > pass - barely and with slightly limited but sufficient functionality). > > Regards, > Jo > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@maven.**apache.org<[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
