Enabling the travis build
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5559ec0..753237f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,8 @@
 airavata-data-lake.iml
 data-orchestrator/data-orchestrator.iml
 data-orchestrator/data-orchestrator-api/data-orchestrator-api.iml
-data-orchestrator/data-orchestrator-core/data-orchestrator-core.iml
\ No newline at end of file
+data-orchestrator/data-orchestrator-core/data-orchestrator-core.iml
+target/
+data-orchestrator/target
+data-orchestrator/data-orchestrator-core/target
+data-orchestrator/data-orchestrator-api/target
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9f37705
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#
+# 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.
+#
+
+language: java
+
+sudo: false
+
+notifications:
+  email:
+    on_success: change
+    on_failure: always
+
+jdk:
+  - oraclejdk11
+
+script: mvn clean install
+
+# Git-describe Maven plugin needs the full history
+git:
+  depth: false
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b3e53b6..48bcf01 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -50,6 +50,19 @@
         <url>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA</url>
     </issueManagement>
 
-
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.6.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>11</source>
+                    <target>11</target>
+                    <fork>true</fork>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
 
 </project>