Add GitHub Actions CI pipeline

Author: SawdustSpike

.github/workflows/build.yml

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+name: Build and Test
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+
+      - name: Checkout Code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set Up Java
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: temurin
+          java-version: 21
+
+      - name: Build and Run Tests
+        run: mvn clean test

HELP.md

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+# Read Me First
+The following was discovered as part of building this project:
+
+* The original package name 'com.spike.access-request-platform' is invalid and this project uses 'com.spike.access_request_platform' instead.
+
+# Getting Started
+
+### Reference Documentation
+For further reference, please consider the following sections:
+
+* [Official Apache Maven documentation](https://maven.apache.org/guides/index.html)
+* [Spring Boot Maven Plugin Reference Guide](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/4.1.0/maven-plugin)
+* [Create an OCI image](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/4.1.0/maven-plugin/build-image.html)
+* [Spring Web](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/4.1.0/reference/web/servlet.html)
+* [Spring Data JPA](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/4.1.0/reference/data/sql.html#data.sql.jpa-and-spring-data)
+* [Validation](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/4.1.0/reference/io/validation.html)
+* [Spring Boot DevTools](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/4.1.0/reference/using/devtools.html)
+
+### Guides
+The following guides illustrate how to use some features concretely:
+
+* [Building a RESTful Web Service](https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/)
+* [Serving Web Content with Spring MVC](https://spring.io/guides/gs/serving-web-content/)
+* [Building REST services with Spring](https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/rest/)
+* [Accessing Data with JPA](https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-jpa/)
+* [Validation](https://spring.io/guides/gs/validating-form-input/)
+
+### Maven Parent overrides
+
+Due to Maven's design, elements are inherited from the parent POM to the project POM.
+While most of the inheritance is fine, it also inherits unwanted elements like `<license>` and `<developers>` from the parent.
+To prevent this, the project POM contains empty overrides for these elements.
+If you manually switch to a different parent and actually want the inheritance, you need to remove those overrides.
+