Maven etc

[doodab]

Right then, I am looking at setting up maven properly to manage the frankly preposterous amount of dependencies floating around on some of the stuff I am working on. At the moment I have a combination of completely manual stuff and some limited use of a local (i.e. on my laptop) maven repository. There is a lot of 3rd party stuff that needs in there that isn't going to be coming from one of the publicly accessible repositories and I would like to get something a bit more "proper" set up on my laptop and then e.g. backup and restore or zip it up in order shift it to a shared repository later on.

I'm looking at the free versions of artifactory and sonatype nexus. Any opinions on which is better and why? Or does it not really matter much? Any tips for getting it up and running?

I'm inclined towards artifactory because I have a book (Java Power Tools) with instructions and I don't really want to spend a week on it.

[doodab]

Right well I can now say that artifactory is very simple to get up and running, just set an environment variable and install a WAR and off you go.

Getting all the stuff into the repository will be a bit more challenging though.