The Maven repository manager
If you are an independent developer who works according to your own schedule, you might not want to worry about a repository manager. However, if you are part of a larger team, doing day-to-day development with Maven, then you must evaluate the need for a repository manager. A Maven repository manager addresses two concerns in enterprise application development.
An organization with more than 100 developers who are continuously working on Maven based projects can easily burst out the outbound network traffic. To do an online build, it might take from 1 hour to 5 hours, based on the size of your project. This becomes much worse if you have many SNAPSHOT dependencies. The Maven repository manager, which can act as a proxy ...
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