Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It can act as a nearby (proxy) cache of popular global repositories. It has other features such as repository purge (of snapshots), repository search and browse, securing repositories, identifying unknown artifacts and reporting of repository problems. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT.

The features of Archive are:

• Archiva provides an informative display for projects and artifacts stored in the repository. This includes a user-friendly display of the Maven project information, as well as the relationships between projects.
• Archiva has both a user-friendly browsing interface, and powerful search functionalities. The contents of all artifacts are indexed, including Maven project information and Java class information to facilitate locating code within any repository. By using the "Find Artifact" feature, you can identify unknown artifacts based on the database of known checksums for known artifacts.
• Archiva can operate as a proxy for remote repositories, allowing you to improve build performance by caching artifacts in a closer network location, and control artifact usage through the use of white and black lists on proxy connectors.
• Archiva now supports artifact uploads via UI. A pom file can also be included in the upload or Archiva can generate one during the upload.
• Archiva has a comprehensive web-based administration interface for configuring repositories, remote proxies, scheduled jobs and more. The configuration is kept in sync with the XML configuration files so that they can also be hand-edited if necessary
• Archiva implements the concept of virtual repositories, wherein a set of Archiva repositories can be grouped together under one URL and that one URL can be used by clients (s.a. Maven) to download from these repositories..
• Archiva provides RSS feeds for new artifacts in the repositories and new versions of a specific artifact.
• Archiva uses the Redback security framework to provide flexible role-based security controls for repositories. You can use the graphical interface to maintain user accounts, as well as secure repositories for read and/or write access for individuals, or given roles.
• Archiva monitors the state of the managed repositories and keeps track of potential problems to allow improvement of metadata and to assist in troubleshooting problems.
• Archiva has utilities called consumers that can be used for maintaining the Archiva repositories. These can be configured or activated in the Repository Scanning section of the webapp. The configuration are stored in Archiva's xml configuration files, meaning you can also hand-edit these config files to enable or disable these consumers.