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+Gradle Plugins for Cordapps
+===========================
+
+The projects at this level of the project are gradle plugins for cordapps and are published to Maven Local with
+the rest of the Corda libraries.
+
+.. note::
+
+     Some of the plugins here are duplicated with the ones in buildSrc. While the duplication is unwanted any
+     currently known solution (such as publishing from buildSrc or setting up a separate project/repo) would
+     introduce a two step build which is less convenient.