Hi, I was looking for a way to add some metadata to build artifacts after they are deployed to Nexus / Artifactory. Since both tools offer a metadata-plugin for the Pro Editions I decided to write my own Jenkins Plugin that calls the Nexus REST API to add some metadata to the deployed artifact. Turns out, writing Jenkins plugins is not that hard thanks to some great documentation and the Maven hpi plugin that creates the project skeleton.
I wrote up my experience when developing the plugin and posted the project on github. - Jenkins - Nexus Tutorial<http://blog.codecentric.de/en/2012/08/tutorial-create-a-jenkins-plugin-to-integrate-jenkins-and-nexus-repository/> - Sourcecode on Github<https://github.com/marcelbirkner/nexus-metadata-plugin/> I hope you find the article helpful in creating your own Jenkins plugins in the future. Greetings, Marcel
