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+/*
+ *
+ *  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.
+ *
+ */
+
+def doValidation() {
+  // Run all the tasks associated with `check` except for `test` - the latter is executed via `doTest`
+  sh """
+    ./retry_zinc ./gradlew -PscalaVersion=$SCALA_VERSION clean check -x test \
+        --profile --continue -PxmlSpotBugsReport=true -PkeepAliveMode="session"
+  """
+}
+
+def isChangeRequest(env) {
+  env.CHANGE_ID != null && !env.CHANGE_ID.isEmpty()
+}
+
+def doTest(env, target = "test") {
+  sh """./gradlew -PscalaVersion=$SCALA_VERSION ${target} \
+      --profile --continue -PkeepAliveMode="session" -PtestLoggingEvents=started,passed,skipped,failed \
+      -PignoreFailures=true -PmaxParallelForks=2 -PmaxTestRetries=1 -PmaxTestRetryFailures=10"""
+  junit '**/build/test-results/**/TEST-*.xml'
+}
+
+def doStreamsArchetype() {
+  echo 'Verify that Kafka Streams archetype compiles'
+
+  sh '''
+    ./gradlew streams:publishToMavenLocal clients:publishToMavenLocal connect:json:publishToMavenLocal connect:api:publishToMavenLocal \
+         || { echo 'Could not publish kafka-streams.jar (and dependencies) locally to Maven'; exit 1; }
+  '''
+
+  VERSION = sh(script: 'grep "^version=" gradle.properties | cut -d= -f 2', returnStdout: true).trim()
+
+  dir('streams/quickstart') {
+    sh '''
+      mvn clean install -Dgpg.skip  \
+          || { echo 'Could not `mvn install` streams quickstart archetype'; exit 1; }
+    '''
+
+    dir('test-streams-archetype') {
+      // Note the double quotes for variable interpolation
+      sh """ 
+        echo "Y" | mvn archetype:generate \
+            -DarchetypeCatalog=local \
+            -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.kafka \
+            -DarchetypeArtifactId=streams-quickstart-java \
+            -DarchetypeVersion=${VERSION} \
+            -DgroupId=streams.examples \
+            -DartifactId=streams.examples \
+            -Dversion=0.1 \
+            -Dpackage=myapps \
+            || { echo 'Could not create new project using streams quickstart archetype'; exit 1; }
+      """
+
+      dir('streams.examples') {
+        sh '''
+          mvn compile \
+              || { echo 'Could not compile streams quickstart archetype project'; exit 1; }
+        '''
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+def tryStreamsArchetype() {
+  try {
+    doStreamsArchetype()
+  } catch(err) {
+    echo 'Failed to build Kafka Streams archetype, marking this build UNSTABLE'
+    currentBuild.result = 'UNSTABLE'
+  }
+}
+
+
+pipeline {
+  agent none
+  
+  triggers {
+    cron('@daily')
+  }
+
+  options {
+    disableConcurrentBuilds(abortPrevious: isChangeRequest(env))
+  }
+  
+  stages {
+    stage('Build') {
+      parallel {
+
+        stage('PowerPC') {
+          agent { label 'ppc64le' }
+          tools {
+            jdk 'jdk_21_latest'
+          }
+          options {
+            timeout(time: 8, unit: 'HOURS')
+            timestamps()
+          }
+          environment {
+            SCALA_VERSION=2.13
+          }
+          steps {
+            doValidation()
+            doTest(env)
+            echo 'Skipping Kafka Streams archetype test for PowerPC build'
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  
+  post {
+    always {
+      script {
+        if (!isChangeRequest(env)) {
+          node('ubuntu') {
+            step([$class: 'Mailer',
+                 notifyEveryUnstableBuild: true,
+                 recipients: "dev@kafka.apache.org",
+                 sendToIndividuals: false])
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}