Publishing to jcenter possible via bintrayUpload (with the correct credentials) and corda now has a dependency on the published gradle plugin to allow the split.

build.gradle

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ buildscript {
     dependencies {
         classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
         classpath 'com.jfrog.bintray.gradle:gradle-bintray-plugin:1.4'
+        classpath 'net.corda.plugins:publish-utils:0.5'
 
         // Can run 'gradle dependencyUpdates' to find new versions of things.
         classpath 'com.github.ben-manes:gradle-versions-plugin:0.12.0'

core/build.gradle

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 apply plugin: 'kotlin'
 apply plugin: QuasarPlugin
-// Applying the maven plugin means this will get installed locally when running "gradle install"
+apply plugin: 'net.corda.plugins.publish-utils'
-apply plugin: DefaultPublishTasks
 
 buildscript {
     repositories {

finance/build.gradle

@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ publishing {
             artifact javadocJar
         }
     }
-}
+}

gradle-plugins/publish-utils/build.gradle

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ bintray {
     user = System.getenv('CORDA_BINTRAY_USER')
     key = System.getenv('CORDA_BINTRAY_KEY')
     publications = ['publishUtils']
+    dryRun = false
     pkg {
         repo = 'corda'
         name = 'publish-utils'
@@ -34,6 +35,8 @@ bintray {
     }
 }
 
+task(install, dependsOn: 'publishToMavenLocal')
+
 publishing {
     publications {
         publishUtils(MavenPublication) {
@@ -43,6 +46,26 @@ publishing {
 
             artifact sourceJar
             artifact javadocJar
+
+            pom.withXml {
+                asNode().children().last() + {
+                    resolveStrategy = Closure.DELEGATE_FIRST
+                    name 'publish-utils'
+                    description 'A small gradle plugin that adds a couple of convenience functions for publishing to Maven'
+                    url 'https://github.com/corda/corda'
+                    scm {
+                        url 'https://github.com/corda/corda'
+                    }
+
+                    licenses {
+                        license {
+                            name 'Apache-2.0'
+                            url 'https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0'
+                            distribution 'repo'
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
         }
     }
 }

gradle-plugins/publish-utils/src/main/groovy/net/corda/plugins/PublishTasks.groovy

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import org.gradle.api.Project
 /**
  * A utility plugin that when applied will automatically create source and javadoc publishing tasks
  */
-class DefaultPublishTasks implements Plugin<Project> {
+class PublishTasks implements Plugin<Project> {
     void apply(Project project) {
         project.task("sourceJar", type: Jar, dependsOn: project.classes) {
             classifier = 'sources'

gradle-plugins/publish-utils/src/main/resources/META-INF/gradle-plugins/net.corda.plugins.publish-utils.properties

@@ -1 +1 @@
-implementation-class=net.corda.plugins.DefaultPublishTasks
+implementation-class=net.corda.plugins.PublishTasks