Sonatype Streamlines Agile Development for Maven, Hudson 
Sonatype is shipping an integrated development suite for Maven-centric Java development. Sonatype Professional is tightly integrated with the Eclipse development environment to simplify builds, artifact search and reuse, defect detection, and bug fixes.
Sonatype is shipping an integrated development suite for Maven-centric Java development. Sonatype Professional is tightly integrated with the Eclipse development environment to simplify builds, artifact search and reuse, defect detection, and bug fixes.
In specific, Sonatype Professional integrates with popular development infrastructure technologies, including:
- Apache Maven—for build management
- Nexus Professional—for enterprise repository management and reporting
- Hudson—for continuous integration
- m2eclipse—for visual management of Maven
“Development teams often struggle to achieve the full promise of agile methodologies using their current toolsets.
Larry Roshfeld
Executive VP - Products
Sonatype
While Maven and Hudson help meet the need for agile-friendly toolsets, the cost and complexity of integrating and managing numerous open source projects can be high, according to Larry Roshfeld, executive vice president of products at Sonatype. “Development teams often struggle to achieve the full promise of agile methodologies using their current toolsets. With Sonatype Professional, we’re giving them a better option,” he said in a statement.
From within Eclipse, Sonatype professional users can:
- Visually manage Maven
- Browse and search Nexus repositories
- Submit Hudson continuous integration jobs
- Receive real-time build and continuous integration alerts
- Jump quickly to broken code
Sonatype Professional is also integrated with Maven Central, the industry’s main resource for the exchange of Java artifacts, to give users access to a comprehensive repository of software components, according to company officials.
To help teams more quickly get up to speed on new projects, Sonatype Professional includes a developer onboarding feature. This enables devs to constitute a full Eclipse environment including: Eclipse, plug-ins, source code branches and continuous integration jobs to reduce the setup time for developers working on new projects, joining new teams, or working to fix bugs in production software, Roshfeld added.
