diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cdc6c84f6..1d560d702 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ This release includes the following key new features and improvements:
 
 You can find all previous [Release Notes](https://github.com/LucidWorks/banana/wiki/Release-Notes) on our wiki page.
 
-
 ### Changes to your dashboards
 If you created dashboards for Banana 1.0.0, you did not have a global filtering panel. In some cases, these filter values can be implicitly set to defaults that may lead to strange search results. We recommend updating your old dashboards by adding a filtering panel. A good way to do it visually is to put the filtering panel on its own row and hide it when it is not needed.
 
@@ -112,7 +111,11 @@ __A__: Yes, from version 1.3 onwards, non-time series data are also supported.
 3.	LogStash: http://logstash.net/
 4.	SILK Use Cases: https://github.com/LucidWorks/silkusecases. Provides example configuration files, schemas and dashboards required to build applications that use Solr and Banana.
 
+## Publishing WAR Artifacts to Maven Central
 
+1. 	Get hold of [maven-ant-tasks-X.X.X.jar](http://search.maven.org/#search|gav|1|g%3A%22org.apache.maven%22%20AND%20a%3A%22maven-ant-tasks%22) and put it in this directory
+2. 	Execute *ant -lib . deploy* from this directory, this will sign the Maven artifacts (currently just .war) and send them to a [Sonatype OSSRH](https://oss.sonatype.org/) staging repository. Details of how to set this up can be found [here](http://central.sonatype.org/pages/ossrh-guide.html). N.B. Ensure that you have an *release* profile contained within ~/.m2/settings.xml
+3.	Once you've read, and are happy with the staging repos, close it. 
 
 ## Support
 
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index b8c1a7744..9e4d18f63 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1,16 +1,57 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<project name="Banana Project" basedir="." default="build-war">
-    <property file="build.properties"/>
-    <property name="src.dir" value="src"/>
-    <property name="build.dir" value="build"/>
-    <property name="name" value="banana"/>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 
-    <buildnumber/>
-    <target name="build-war" description="Build application as a WAR file">
-        <war destfile="${build.dir}/${name}-${build.number}.war" webxml="${src.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">
-            <fileset dir="${src.dir}">
-                <include name="**/*.*"/>
-            </fileset>
-        </war>
-    </target>
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project name="${name}" default="build-war" xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" xmlns:artifact="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant">
+
+  <property file="${basedir}/default.properties" />
+
+  <!-- define Maven coordinates, repository url and artifacts name etc -->
+  <property name="groupId" value="com.lucidworks" />
+  <property name="artifactId" value="${final.name}" />
+  <property name="maven-repository-url"
+    value="https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2" />
+  <property name="maven-repository-id" value="sonatype-nexus-staging" />
+  <property name="maven-war" value="${build.dir}/${final.name}.war" />
+
+  <target name="build-war" description="Build application as a WAR file">
+    <war destfile="${build.dir}/${final.name}.war" webxml="${src.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">
+      <fileset dir="${src.dir}">
+        <include name="**/*.*" />
+      </fileset>
+    </war>
+  </target>
+
+  <!-- ================================================================== -->
+  <!-- Deploy to SonaType OSSRH -->
+  <!-- ================================================================== -->
+  <target name="deploy" depends="build-war" description="Deploy to SonaType OSSRH">
+    <!-- generate a pom file -->
+    <!--  ivy:makepom ivyfile="${ivy.file}" pomfile="${basedir}/pom.xml" templatefile="${basedir}/mvn.template"> 
+      <mapping conf="default" scope="compile"/> <mapping conf="runtime" scope="runtime"/> 
+    </ivy:makepom-->
+    <!-- sign and deploy the war artifact -->
+    <artifact:mvn>
+      <arg
+        value="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:1.5:sign-and-deploy-file" />
+      <arg value="-Durl=${maven-repository-url}" />
+      <arg value="-DrepositoryId=${maven-repository-id}" />
+      <arg value="-DpomFile=pom.xml" />
+      <arg value="-Dfile=${maven-war}" />
+      <arg value="-Prelease" />
+    </artifact:mvn>
+  </target>
 </project>
diff --git a/default.properties b/default.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..571c42709
--- /dev/null
+++ b/default.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+name=banana
+version=1.5.1
+final.name=${name}-${version}
+year=2015
+
+basedir = ./
+src.dir = ./src
+build.dir = ./build
+build.encoding = UTF-8
+buildnumber=${scmBranch}@r${buildNumber}
+
+test.src.dir = ./src/test
+test.build.dir = ${build.dir}/test
+
+ivy.version=2.2.0
diff --git a/mvn.template b/mvn.template
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7a23e8778
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mvn.template
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>${ivy.pom.groupId}</groupId>
+    <artifactId>${ivy.pom.artifactId}</artifactId>
+    <packaging>${ivy.pom.packaging}</packaging>
+    <version>${version}</version>
+    <name>Banana Project</name>
+    <description>${ivy.pom.description}</description>
+    <url>${ivy.pom.url}</url>
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+            <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+            <distribution>repo</distribution>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+    <build>
+        <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
+        <testSourceDirectory>test/</testSourceDirectory>
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <source>1.7</source>
+                        <target>1.7</target>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+    </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6f4e341f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
+        <artifactId>oss-parent</artifactId>
+        <version>7</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.lucidworks</groupId>
+    <artifactId>banana</artifactId>
+    <packaging>war</packaging>
+    <version>1.5.1</version>
+    <description>The Banana project was forked from Kibana, and works with all kinds of time series (and non-time series) data stored in Apache Solr.
+    </description>
+    <url>https://github.com/LucidWorks/banana</url>
+    <name>Banana Project</name>
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+            <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+            <distribution>repo</distribution>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+    <scm>
+        <url>https://github.com/LucidWorks/banana</url>
+        <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/LucidWorks/banana.git</connection>
+        <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com/LucidWorks/banana.git</developerConnection>
+        <tag>HEAD</tag>
+    </scm>
+    <distributionManagement>
+        <repository>
+            <id>sonatype-nexus-staging</id>
+            <name>Nexus Staging Repository</name>
+            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
+        </repository>
+    </distributionManagement>
+    <issueManagement>
+        <system>GitHub Issues</system>
+        <url>https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons/issues</url>
+    </issueManagement>
+    <developers>
+        <developer>
+            <id></id>
+            <name></name>
+            <email></email>
+        </developer>
+    </developers>
+    <build>
+        <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <source>1.7</source>
+                        <target>1.7</target>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+    </build>
+</project>