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    A comment on the question "Does Nexus Download Artifacts to a Server Cache or a Developer's Workstation?" in Sonatype:

    Fred Tanner
    Hi Tim, thanks for replying so promptly. I think my misunderstanding comes from a pre-conception I had about Nexus: I assumed that Nexus would not automatically download an artifact from an External Remote Repository (e.g. Maven Central) to the Internal Remote Repository as a result of a developer's build referring to that artifact. I would have thought that an administrator would need to manually select each artifact to be downloaded from the net. So if a developer referenced an artifact in his/her build that does not exist in the Nexus repository, the build would fail.

    Does Nexus provide any means of achieving this? One of the key reasons we are investigating repository managers is so we can control the artifacts that are available to developers' builds. For example, we would download 'approved' versions of Spring, etc., and it would be impossible for developer's builds to access non-approved versions.

    Thanks,
    Fred – Fred Tanner, on April 18, 2009 05:10
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    Fred Tanner asked a question in Sonatype on April 17, 2009 12:27:

    Fred Tanner
    Does Nexus Download Artifacts to a Server Cache or a Developer's Workstation?
    I'm confused about you are supposed to use Nexus to download artifacts/poms from the Maven Central Repository. The documentation is clear on how to search for artifacts, and it says you just need to click the 'Download' link to download (section 4.4 of the PDF 'Repository Management with Nexus', edition 0.7). However, I would expect that clicking this link would automatically download the artifact into the appropriate location in the Nexus filesystem. However, on IE at least, the user is prompted to provide a download location. Does this mean the user needs to save every artifact off to some location, then use the 'Upload Artifact' feature to incorporate the file into Nexus? Thanks.