Add CI, various dep updates and minor clean ups (#15)

* Do not track this file

* Enable actions CI

* Update maven-compiler-plugin to 3.10.1

* Update junit to 4.13.2

* Test another distribution

* Revert back to previous distro; fail still exits

* Use latest surefire

* Disable javadoc for the moment

.github/workflows/maven.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# This workflow will build a Java project with Maven
+# For more information see: https://help.github.com/actions/language-and-framework-guides/building-and-testing-java-with-maven
+
+name: Java CI with Maven
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        # test against latest update of each major Java version:
+        java: [ 8, 11, 17 ]
+    name: Java ${{ matrix.java }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/cache@v3
+        with:
+          path: ~/.m2/repository
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-maven-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-maven-
+      - name: Setup java
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v3
+        with:
+          distribution: 'adopt'
+          java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
+      - name: Build with Maven
+        run: mvn -B clean test package

pom.xml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.13.1</version>
+            <version>4.13.2</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
@@ -27,12 +27,17 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.8.0</version>
+                <version>3.10.1</version>
                 <configuration>
                 	<source>1.8</source>
                 	<target>1.8</target>
-                </configuration>
-            </plugin>
+		</configuration>
+	     </plugin>
+	     <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.0.0-M6</version>
+             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
-</project>
+</project>