I work with projects where dependency management is resolved with Apache IVY. I also have to publish this projects/artifacts in Sonatype Nexus
I have found that internally to publish in Nexus, IVY file format is converted to Maven POM, and dependencies are resolved Maven's way.
My question:
Can Nexus work directly against IVY files without any Maven conversion?
Thank you
Short answer: No.
I would ask, "Why does it matter?"