Proxying the Oracle Maven Repository with Artifactory/Nexus/Archiva

Question

Hi Folks,
We are aware that some of you would want to proxy the Oracle Maven Repository with repository managers like Artifactory and Nexus.  We have tested the three common ones, and found that they all need small patches to understand the authentication we are using.   We are working with them to patch these issues.  We will let you know the JIRA ID's for these issues when they are available.  If you want to help, you can upvote the issues, or if you are using commercial versions, you could contact your representative to let them know you want these patches.
Best regards,
Mark Nelson

Answer 1

Hi Mark,
I found this article late, but better then newer. Also Steve Button informed about Oracle Maven and situation at:
https://blogs.oracle.com/WebLogicServer/entry/weblogic_server_and_the_oracle
Once Sonatype released Nexus version with fixed follwing issue:
https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-7915
I directly compiled and the result is available at:
https://github.com/archenroot/nexus-oss/releases/tag/nexus-2.11.2-01
In the moment there is already binary bundle provided directly by Sonatype with version 2.11.2-04, so you can proxy it, that is working fine, still one bug is there. When trying to open remote storage there appear follwoing issue:
to URI: /nexus/service/local
jvm 1    | 2015-03-05 13:57:04,444+0000 WARN  [qtp1269584401-98] admin org.sonatype.nexus.plugins.rrb.MavenRepositoryReader - Failed to get directory listing content
jvm 1    | org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException: null
jvm 1    |      at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:186) ~[httpclient-4.3.6.jar:4.3.6]
jvm 1    |      at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:82) ~[httpclient-4.3.6.jar:4.3.6]
jvm 1    |      at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:57) ~[httpclient-4.3.6.jar:4.3.6]
jvm 1    |      at org.sonatype.nexus.plugins.rrb.MavenRepositoryReader.getContent(MavenRepositoryReader.java:231) [nexus-rrb-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.sonatype.nexus.plugins.rrb.MavenRepositoryReader.extract(MavenRepositoryReader.java:101) [nexus-rrb-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.sonatype.nexus.plugins.rrb.RemoteBrowserResource.get(RemoteBrowserResource.java:138) [nexus-rrb-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.sonatype.plexus.rest.resource.RestletResource.represent(RestletResource.java:233) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.sonatype.nexus.rest.NexusRestletResource.represent(NexusRestletResource.java:39) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.restlet.resource.Resource.getRepresentation(Resource.java:302) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.restlet.resource.Resource.handleGet(Resource.java:464) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.restlet.Finder.handle(Finder.java:353) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.restlet.Filter.doHandle(Filter.java:150) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.restlet.Filter.handle(Filter.java:195) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.restlet.Router.handle(Router.java:504) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.restlet.Filter.doHandle(Filter.java:150) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
jvm 1    |      at org.restlet.Filter.handle(Filter.java:195) [nexus-restlet1x-plugin-2.11.2-04/:na]
But again, proxy mode fully working.