diff --git a/.travis-settings.xml b/.travis-settings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6e86c155f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis-settings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
+                      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
+  <localRepository/>
+  <interactiveMode/>
+  <usePluginRegistry/>
+  <offline/>
+  <pluginGroups/>
+  <servers>
+    <server>
+      <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
+      <username>${env.CI_DEPLOY_USERNAME}</username>
+      <password>${env.CI_DEPLOY_PASSWORD}</password>
+    </server>
+  </servers>
+  <mirrors/>
+  <proxies/>
+  <profiles/>
+  <activeProfiles/>
+</settings>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..149d8e77e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+language: java
+matrix:
+  include:
+  - jdk: oraclejdk7
+    script: mvn test deploy --settings .travis-settings.xml
+  - jdk: oraclejdk8
+    script: mvn test
+notifications:
+  email:
+    recipients:
+    - adangel@users.sourceforge.net
+    on_success: always
+    on_failure: always
+cache:
+  directories:
+  - "$HOME/.m2"
+env:
+  global:
+  - secure: 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
+  - secure: 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
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a904314c59..b57cd39711 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-[![PMD - Don't shoot the messenger][PMDLogo]][website]
-
 PMD
 ===
 
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/pmd/pmd.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/pmd/pmd)
+
 About
 -----
 PMD is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks,
@@ -13,15 +13,12 @@ Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Fortran, JavaScript.
 Source
 ------
 Our latest source of PMD can be found on [GitHub]. Fork us!
-The current status of this repo can be seen at [BuildHive].
 
 News and Website
 ----------------
 More information can be found on our [Website] and on [SourceForge].
 
 
-[PMDLogo]: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/pmd_logo.png
 [GitHub]: https://github.com/pmd/pmd
-[BuildHive]: https://buildhive.cloudbees.com/job/pmd/
-[Website]: http://pmd.sourceforge.net
+[Website]: https://pmd.github.io
 [SourceForge]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pmd/