R – Best choice for hosting Maven repository and continuous integration

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Can anyone recommend a good hosting provider where we can host our Maven 2 repository and continuous integration process?

We're very open minded about the implementation and are willing to use any OS, CI software and repository software so long as it gets the job done well.

Thanks in advance

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we are using nexus community edition (@see http://www.sonatype.com/products/nexus) for caching external artifacts and publishing internal releases and snapshots.

we evaluated some tools for continuous integration (@see http://continuum.apache.org , @see https://hudson.dev.java.net) and decided to use hudson because of its simplicity.

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How to maven be used in a continuous integration situation to install versioned artifacts in the repository

Sounds like you want to build SNAPSHOT versions with unique versions.

So, in your POM declare the version as:

<version>#.#.#-SNAPSHOT</version>

Then, in the distributionManagement section of your POM, enable unique versions for the snapshotRepository via (see Maven's POM reference on this):

<snapshotRepository>
  <uniqueVersion>true</uniqueVersion>
  <id>your-snapshot-repo-id</id>
  <name>Your Snapshots</name>
  <url>http://your-snapshot-repo-url/maven</url>
</snapshotRepository>

FYI, note that Maven conventions recommend versions be declared as major.minor.revision. So, 1.0.25 instead of 1.0.0.25. If you're able to use this versioning scheme, things will work more smoothly in a Maven world.

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