What is the difference between Nexus and Maven?

Question

What is the difference between Nexus and Maven?

What is a basic scenario of usage only Maven? What about a scenari

Answer 1

This has a good general description: https://gephi.wordpress.com/tag/maven/

Let me make a few statement that can put the difference in focus:

1. We migrated our code base from Ant to Maven

2. All 3rd party librairies have been uploaded to Nexus. Maven is using Nexus as a source for libraries.

3. Basic functionalities of a repository manager like Sonatype are:

   • Managing project dependencies,
   • Artifacts & Metadata,
   • Proxying external repositories
   • and deployment of packaged binaries and JARs to share those artifacts with other developers and end-users.