Free Video Series - Easy Publishing to the Central Repository

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Publishing your components to the Central Repository via the Nexus Repository Manager running on OSSRH has always had a mixed perception. It is actually very easy, yet it has often been perceived as complicated. Once you understand a few basics and completed the initial setup, everything can be automated and is easy to perform.

However managing OSSRH for years and on-boarding dozens of projects a day, our operations team has observed a few patterns. This led us to assemble a few tips and explanations for typical problem areas and we turned those into short, easily digestible videos now. The series is called Easy Publishing to the Central Repository and it is available for free on the Nexus community. The episodes are:

• Claim your Namespace on the Central Repository
• Applying for Access to OSSRH
• Requirements and Signing Tips
• Accessing OSSRH
• First Deployments
• Project Object Model POM?!
• Javadoc, Sources and Signing
• Getting Help

All of these videos are only a couple of minutes long and provide you with a good understanding for the first necessary steps. If you want to dive deeper you can use our example project as a base. And of course, the documentation right here on the site provides more details, once you have mastered the first steps.

For example, check out the pages about

• Choosing your Coordinates
• Central Component Requirements
• Working with GPG Signatures

Or tool-specific tips for

• Apache Maven
• Apache Ant
• Gradle
• sbt
• Manual Staging Bundle Creation and Deployment

And if you still get stuck or run into trouble, make sure to reach out to use via one of the many Support channels.