How do you publish sources using maven-publish in a Java binary plugin?

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Currently I have this task in my build.gradle file

task sourcesJar(type: Jar) {
  from sourceSets.main.allJava
  classifier = 'sources'
}

I want to have this task created by a binary plugin written in Java.
My question is how do I write this in Java using org.gradle?

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The following plugin class should give you some ideas to go from (I did not execute/test this code):

import org.gradle.api.Plugin;
import org.gradle.api.Project;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSetContainer;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.Jar;
public class SourcesJarPlugin implements Plugin<Project>
{
    @Override
    public void apply( final Project project )
    {
        project.getPluginManager().withPlugin( "java", appliedPlugin -> {
            project.getTasks().register( "sourcesJar", Jar.class, jarTask -> {
                SourceSetContainer sourceSets = project.getExtensions().getByType( SourceSetContainer.class );
                jarTask.from( sourceSets.getByName( "main" ).getAllJava() );
                jarTask.getArchiveClassifier().set( "sources" );
            } );
        } );
    }
}

In case you are unaware, modern Gradle’s java plugin has the ability to create and publish a sources jar by calling withSourcesJar() in the java extension. https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_plugin.html#sec:java-extension