JDeveloper seems to have a compatibility issue with Sonartype Nexus Repository Manager (Version OSS 3.41.1-01).
I configured this index page as "Index Update URL":
https://myserver/service/rest/repository/browse/maven-releases/.index
This page is available ant it looks similar to the Maven Central index available here:
https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/.index
JDeveloper can handle the Maven Central index, but not the index generated by my Nexus Repository Manager.
If I click on Test Connection
button, JDepeloper reports:
The index page of the Nexus Repository Manager is only an HTML representation of the index.
https://myserver/service/rest/repository/browse/maven-releases/.index
JDeveloper doesn't analyses the HTML page, but just appends the URL with an expected filename. It works like this:
https://myserver/service/rest/repository/browse/maven-releases/.index
+ /nexus-maven-repository-index.gz
This result is wrong. The files references by the HTML page are located under another path. These are correct URLs:
The SOLUTION is to enter the following URL as "Index Update URL" in the JDev Preferences:
https://myserver/repository/maven-releases/.index
This URL returns 404 if you access it directly. But it is not an issue. JDeveloper uses this URL just as a prefix to create the right one.
Use the debug mode, if you want to see, what happens inside the JDeveloper:
cd JDEV_HOME\jdeveloper\jdev\bin
jdev -J-Djavax.net.debug=all
The command above prints the logs to the console. It is possible to redirect logging to file:
jdev -J-Djavax.net.debug=all >jdeveloper.log