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+# 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.
+
+name: Java CI
+
+on: [push]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        java: [ '1.8', '11.0.4', '12.0.2' ]
+        
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+    - name: Set up JDK ${{ matrix.java }}
+      uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+      with:
+        java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
+    - name: Build with Maven
+      run: mvn -V apache-rat:check package --file pom.xml