Artifact indexing

Nexus keeps an index of all the repositories managed by it. The index is maintained as a standard Lucene index. Nexus uses the created index in order to find where the requested artifacts belong, prior to talking to a remote repository.

Note

Apache Lucene is an open source project released under Apache 2.0 License is available at http://lucene.apache.org/.

The following list shows you how to update the index of a given repository:

1. Go to http://localhost:8081/nexus and log in as admin.

2. Navigate to Views/Repositories | Repositories and right-click on the repository you need. Then select Update Index.

3. To browse through the index of the selected repository, click on the Browse Index tab just below the repository list.