Suggest a maven repository manager for my projects

Question

I would like to use a repository manager to accommodate my local and remote jar..But i am a newbie to maven.. So any suggestions among these repository managers .. :)

archetype apache archiva sonatype nexus

Answer 1

There are at least four:

• Nexus
• Artifactory
• Archiva
• Reposilite

All are available for open source projects.

Answer 2

We use Nexus from Sonatype and are happy with it so far. Sonatype is quite deep into Maven ("The company was founded by Jason van Zyl, the creator of Apache Maven", http://www.sonatype.com/company.html), which gives additional trust.