Creating a Maven Repository

To create a Maven repository using Nexus, download Nexus and follow the instructions on Nexus’ Installation page to install and start it.

To create your own repository using Nexus, follow these steps:

1. Open your web browser; navigate to your Nexus repository server (e.g., http://localhost:8081/nexus) and log in. The default user name is admin with password admin123.

2. Click on Repositories and navigate to Add… → Hosted Repository.

   

   Figure 1: Adding a repository to hold your Liferay artifacts is easy with Nexus.

   To learn more about each type of Nexus repository, read Sonatype’s Managing Repositories guide.

3. Enter repository properties appropriate for the type of artifacts it will hold. If you’re installing release version artifacts into the repository, specify Release as the repository policy. Below are example repository property values:

   • Repository ID: liferay-releases
   • Repository Name: Liferay Release Repository
   • Provider: Maven2
   • Repository Policy: Release

   To create a snapshot repository, choose Snapshot for the Repository Policy and update the ID and name accordingly.

4. Click Save.

Voila! You’ve created a repository for your Liferay releases (i.e., liferay-releases) and/or Liferay snapshots (i.e., liferay-snapshots). To learn how to deploy your Liferay Maven artifacts to a Nexus repository, see the Deploying Liferay Maven Artifacts to a Repository tutorial.

See the Configuring Local Maven Settings to Access Repositories to configure your new repository servers in your Maven settings to install artifacts to them.