Add script to build examples from helidon-examples repository

etc/scripts/build-examples.sh

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+#!/bin/bash -e
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2024 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+#
+# Licensed 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.
+#
+
+# Build helidon examples, cloning the examples repository if needed
+
+# Path to this script
+[ -h "${0}" ] && readonly SCRIPT_PATH="$(readlink "${0}")" || readonly SCRIPT_PATH="${0}"
+
+# Load pipeline environment setup and define WS_DIR
+. $(dirname -- "${SCRIPT_PATH}")/includes/pipeline-env.sh "${SCRIPT_PATH}" '../..'
+
+# Setup error handling using default settings (defined in includes/error_handlers.sh)
+error_trap_setup
+
+# If needed we clone the helidon-examples repo into a subdirectory of the helidon repository
+readonly HELIDON_EXAMPLES_PATH=${WS_DIR}/helidon-examples
+if [ ! -d "${HELIDON_EXAMPLES_PATH}" ]; then
+  git clone [email protected]:helidon-io/helidon-examples.git "${HELIDON_EXAMPLES_PATH}"
+  cd "${HELIDON_EXAMPLES_PATH}"
+  git checkout dev-3.x
+fi
+
+mvn ${MAVEN_ARGS} -f ${HELIDON_EXAMPLES_PATH}/pom.xml clean install