In order to deploy our artifacts to JCenter, we use the Bintray Gradle plugin. This plugin adds extra functionality to our project to publish our artifacts.
Let's continue with our example build file from the previous project. The build file is for a Java project with some code. We will use the publishing plugin to define our publications or artifacts for the project. We will now add the Gradle plugin to the project by using the buildscript
configuration block. In the next example build file, we will apply the Bintray plugin to our project. The following code shows this:
// Define Bintray plugin. buildscript { repositories { jcenter() } dependencies { classpath 'com.jfrog.bintray.gradle:gradle-bintray-plugin:1.1 } } // Apply plugin to project. apply plugin: 'com.jfrog.bintray' apply plugin: 'maven-publish' apply plugin: 'java' version = '1.0.RELEASE' group = 'book.gradle' repositories { jcenter() } dependencies { compile 'org.springframework...