diff --git a/repository/plugin.jelly b/repository/plugin.jelly
index 26a172cc..67e2a38e 100644
--- a/repository/plugin.jelly
+++ b/repository/plugin.jelly
@@ -229,4 +229,35 @@
     <repository:exec command="${command}" />
   </goal>
   
+  <!-- this is pretty much a copy of whats in jar:deploy-snapshot -->
+  <goal name="repository:deploy-snapshot-jar"
+    description="deploy a snapshot jar, specified by file, to the repository">
+    
+    <j:if test="${empty(artifact)}">
+      <fail>artifact must be specified</fail>
+    </j:if>
+    <j:if test="${empty(groupId)}">
+      <fail>groupId must be specified</fail>
+    </j:if>
+    <j:if test="${empty(artifactId)}">
+      <fail>artifactId must be specified</fail>
+    </j:if>
+    <!-- work out snapshotVersion from artifact -->
+    <!-- artifact is format blah-yyyymmdd.hhmmss.jar -->
+    <u:tokenize var="jarDotBits" delim="-">${artifact}</u:tokenize>
+    <u:tokenize var="snapAndJar" delim=".">${jarDotBits[size(jarDotBits)-1]}</u:tokenize>
+    <j:set var="snapshotVersion" value="${snapAndJar[0]}.${snapAndJar[1]}"/>
+    <echo>snapshotVersion = '${snapshotVersion}'</echo>
+
+    <j:set var="directory" value="${maven.repo.central.directory}/${groupId}/jars/" />
+    <repository:copy from="${artifact}" toFileOrDir="${directory}" />
+    <j:set var="command" value="cd ${directory}"/>
+    <j:set var="command" value="${command};ln -sf ${artifact} ${artifactId}-SNAPSHOT.jar"/>
+    <j:set var="command" value="${command};echo ${snapshotVersion} > ${artifactId}-snapshot-version"/>
+    <j:set var="command" value="${command};chmod g+w *"/>
+    <j:set var="command" value="${command};chgrp maven *"/>
+    <echo>Executing '${command}' remotely</echo>
+    <repository:exec command="${command}" />
+  </goal>
+  
 </project>