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For release versions this is not a big deal, because they are only downloaded once. A repository manager helps you to speed up your development experience because you don't have to contact all remote repositories during your builds. Speed: Some of the public repositories are really slow from time to time. It's also easier to make backups of your artifacts. Of course this makes it a lot easier to manage and handle artifacts in a single place instead of copying and moving them manually. Then other users/computers can easily access these artifacts from the central repository manager. This way you can publish your own library or project JARs, WARs, EARs etc.

Additionally it allows you to upload and distribute your own artifacts. Share artifacts: A repository manager is not limited to be used as a proxy cache. Nexus also can be configured to download remote indexes and index the local artifacts for faster access from inside your network. Otherwise you would have to specify all needed additional repositories inside your settings.xml file or in every project POM (a bad practice!). That makes it easy to hide several public repository URLs behind the repository manager URL. Proxy: Nexus not only allows you to cache artifacts it also allows you to act as a proxy for public remote repositories. That way only one user have to download the artifact and all the others can use the artifact from the central cache. Shared cache: It does not only cache artifacts you have used once but it also enables you to share artifacts with other users or computers in your network. Nexus or any other Maven repository manager on the other hand does more than just this and I would definitely recommend to use such a repository manager if you want to have fun and work without too much trouble with Maven Some typical use cases / features of a repository manager are:

For release versions (in contrast to snapshot versions) this means you have to download these files never again. The Maven local repository is only a per-user directory (at least with Linux and Windows) where artifacts are stored after you have downloaded them once.

Download all artifacts from nexus repository