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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 with Maven
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+       java: ['8']
+       spark-version: ['2.4.8']
+       scala-version: ['2.11', '2.12']
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Set up JDK ${{ matrix.java }}
+      uses: actions/setup-java@v2
+      with:
+        java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
+        distribution: 'zulu'
+        cache: maven 
+    - name: Change scala version to ${{ matrix.scala-version }}
+      run: ./dev/change-scala-version.sh ${{ matrix.scala-version }}
+      shell: bash
+    - name: Build with spark ${{ matrix.spark-version }}
+      run: mvn -B clean verify -Dscala-${{ matrix.scala-version }} -Dspark.version=${{ matrix.spark-version }}