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after working a lot on the CMIS 1.0 Webinar (recording out soon) and having made my first official commit for Apache, I saw an unexpected but never so welcome outstanding speedup of one of the processes that I’ve been pushing in the Alfresco Community for about 3 years now.

I’m proudly announcing the institution of an Alfresco hosted Maven Repository, capable of consolidating and bring the Maven Alfresco Community to the next level. Hosting a repository (for Community artifacts only for now) means a great step towards a even more mature open source community which works against high standards of quality and automation.

I’ll be discussing and demoing this and other Maven Alfresco related topics in next Friday’s Alfresco Tech Talk Live. You’ll find more info on the Alfresco wiki.

For now, here’s a screenshot of our new shiny Sonatype Nexus 1.4.0 instance, which will allow a proper consolidation still scale-out for our community by the means of repositories proxying and Alfresco Community artifacts hosting. Kudos to everyone that made this happen

This is is a big step for the community which is growing around projects like the Maven Alfresco Lifecycle  and the small CMIS 1.0 Maven toolkit which I built for my recent training engagements.

In addition to that,  the mighty great news about the Alfresco SURF and Alfresco Webscripts project now being contributed to the Spring Framework under the newly born Spring Surf Extension (follow our work here), all of which is powered by Maven gives even a more central role to this technology in the company I work for.  Great job guys and thanks for giving me the opportunity to participate in this!

This is such a nice moment for me which I pushed for this since a long time, when I was still working for Sourcesense. And a special thanks must go to them for having first allowed me to work on a Maven Alfresco suite in the past and for having supported it with their Nexus instance, until we introduced an Alfresco Maven repo. Most content is now migrated so you can safely use the new repo in your POMs.

I’m still in the process of migrating (tomorrow should be done) all the apps to the new repo, so expect changes in the docs. I’ll keep you posted with the coming changes and news.

Also, please provide your feedback on this event so we can offer the best service around this important open source Application Lifecycle Management technology.

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