Sonatype Nexus OSS using LATEST in pom.xml gives unresolved dependency (maven2)

Question

I have a Sonatype Nexus OSS install, and I have artifacts on it. However, when using "LATEST" for the version in the pom.xml, I get an unresolved dependency error. Is there something I have to enable to allow the LATEST keyword? I've looked everywhere

Answer 1

The Maven client does not true support dynamic revisions. The closest thing it supports are snapshot revisions, where a revision like 1.0-SNAPSHOT, is resolved to the latest time-stamped artifact.

I think you may be confusing the Maven POM with the REST API used by Nexus. This the ability to specify a "LATEST" version:

• https://repository.sonatype.org/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?r=central-proxy&g=log4j&a=log4j&v=LATEST&e=jar