Summary
In this chapter, we focused on the Maven repository management. We started the discussion on how Maven projects use and reference repositories within the application POM files and globally use settings.xml. Later, we discussed how to use Nexus as a repository manager and configure it as a hosted, proxy, and group repository. Finally, we concluded with a detailed discussion on the Maven repository metadata model. For more details about Nexus, you can check out the information at http://www.sonatype.com/nexus/.
In the next chapter, we will discuss the industry accepted best practices in using Maven.
