Mastering Apache Maven 3

Creating a proxy repository

By default, Nexus comes with following three proxy repositories:

• Central: The central proxy repository is available at https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/
• Apache snapshots: The Apache snapshots proxy repository is available at https://repository.apache.org/snapshots/
• Codehaus snapshots: The Codehaus proxy repository is available at https://nexus.codehaus.org/snapshots/

Let's look at how to create a set of proxy repositories in Nexus. Then we will create a group repository by combining them all. In your Maven project, you only need to add a reference to the group repository. The following steps are to be followed while creating the proxy repositories:

1. Go to http://localhost:8081/nexus and log in as admin.
2. Navigate to Views/Repositories ...