Hi Folks,
Please see updated patch which can be applied against trunk.
It can be applied as follows

cd $LABKEY_HOME
patch -p0 -i LABKEY-JAVA_APIv2.patch

Please see above for using the maven-ant-tasks artifact to produce and public your artifact to staging within Sonatype OSSRH.

Additionally, this patch augments some functionality within the remoteapi build.xml descriptior by adding description attributes to each target. This means we can execute the following

lmcgibbn@LMC-032857 /usr/local/labkey_trunk/remoteapi/java(joshua) $ ant -projecthelp
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option PermSize=1024m; support was removed in 8.0
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=2048m; support was removed in 8.0
Buildfile: /usr/local/labkey_trunk/remoteapi/java/build.xml

Main targets:

 build --> build the .jar artifact if it is not up-to-date.
 build_if_dirty --> build the .jar artifact if source code is dirty.
 clean --> delete the build artifacts and compiled Java code.
 compile --> compile and build Java source code.
 deploy --> deploy to Sonatype OSSRH
 dist --> build the packaged distribution.
 jar --> generate the labkey Java .jar artifacts.
 javadoc --> build the Java API documentation.
 rebuild --> clean and then rebuild the .jar artifact.
 release --> generate the release distribution
Default target: build