Added GitHub workflows

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: Build and Publish package to GitHub Packages
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-[a-z]+.[0-9]+'
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          java-version: '17'
+          distribution: 'temurin'
+          cache: 'maven'
+      - name: Get version
+        id: version
+        run: |
+          echo "parsing version from ref '$GITHUB_REF'"
+
+          VERSION=$(echo "$GITHUB_REF"  | sed -e "s|refs/tags/||g" | sed -E 's/v?([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)(-[a-zA-Z]+(\.[0-9]+)?)?/\1.\2.\3\4/g')
+          echo "version: '$VERSION'"
+
+          echo "VERSION=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Update Version
+        run: |
+          echo "updating version to '$VERSION'"
+          mvn -B versions:set "-DnewVersion=$VERSION"
+      - name: Publish package
+        run: mvn --batch-mode deploy
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      packages: write

.github/workflows/run-unit-tests.yml

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+name: run unit tests
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - 'main'
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '.github/**'
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup Java
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          java-version: 17
+          distribution: 'temurin'
+          cache: 'maven'
+      - name: Run unit tests
+        run: |
+          mvn test