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+on: 
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '*'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: docker
+
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: make gradle wrapper executable
+        run: chmod +x ./gradlew
+
+      - name: set up jdk
+        run: |
+          INSTALL_DIR="/opt/java"
+          mkdir -p "$INSTALL_DIR"
+          DOWNLOAD_URL="https://cdn.azul.com/zulu/bin/zulu21.40.17-ca-jdk21.0.6-linux_x64.tar.gz"
+
+          echo "Downloading from $DOWNLOAD_URL"
+          curl -L "$DOWNLOAD_URL" | tar -xz -C "$INSTALL_DIR"
+
+      - name: build
+        run: JAVA_HOME="/opt/java/zulu21.40.17-ca-jdk21.0.6-linux_x64" ./gradlew build
+
+      - name: capture build artifacts
+        uses: https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: Artifacts
+          path: 'build/libs'