News from February, 2011

Sonatype is pleased to announce the availability of http://mavencentral.sonatype.com,
a new website for searching the artifacts in the Maven Central Repository.
We are making this early announcement to the users of Sonatype's OSS Repository
Hosting service so that you can preview the site's functionality and provide
feedback before we send out a wider and more formal announcement.

What makes mavencentral.sonatype.com (Maven Central) different from
other sites that index and search the central repository
(http://repo1.maven.org)? This search engine is tightly coupled to
the contents of Central and we are able to update it as soon as new
artifacts appear. Maven Central, therefore, is not just a place for
quickly and easily researching artifacts on which your project
depends, but it is also the most up-to-date source of information on
those artifacts other than browsing repo1.maven.org directly.

Before you use Maven Central, note that the site relies heavily on
Javascript. Please make sure that Javascript is enabled in your
browser. Maven Central has been tested on IE7+, FF3+, Safari 3+, and
Chrome 4+. The Jar Check feature downloads and executes a Java
applet, so you will need to have Java 1.5+ installed and Java enabled
in your browser to use this feature.

Searching Maven Central is simple. You can search for artifacts
hosted in Maven Central by typing in your search terms separated by
spaces. Maven Central will search for your terms in either the
groupId or the artifactId fields. Your search results will include
the latest version for each found artifact, a link to see all versions
for that particular artifact, and all available downloads for that
artifact.

Maven Central also offers advanced search functionality, including:

– Search by Maven coordinates
– Search by class name
– Search by SHA-1 checksum (which Maven Central can calculate for any
jar file you have on your computer using its Jar Check functionality).

Feel free to provide feedback using the feedback tab that is always
available on the right-hand border of Maven Central. You can share
ideas, ask questions, or report problems with the site. This is the
first of many releases we plan for Maven Central, and we very much
value the opinions of the diverse OSSRH community in helping us
improve it.

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