DRAFT: Tracking of changes from 'hazendaz' which will be managed via smaller pull requests

[hazendaz]

In an effort to get rid of libraries coming into code bases that are long obsolete, coming here to the source for us to clear these out. This is somewhat big pull request. Each item has been constructively broken down into individual commits. All tests continue to pass. This can be further broken down if wished into smaller PRs.

General list of items

• Maven cleanup work
• Use only powermock instead of jmockit (I'm currently the maintainer of jmockit and highly suggest this)
• Update all libraries
• Update all plugins
• Add GHA for java 17 and 21 along with support on add opens to allow processing of framework.

As to powermock, it is obsolete too except for its whitebox which is still extremely useful but there is no activity there. If this goes well, I don't mind upgrading this repo to junit 5 jupiter as well with mockito and replacing all the major parts of powermock as well. As to extra throws with powermock reflect, that is sort of needed here since jmockit, since I toke it over, does not yet have deencapsulation back (but that is in flight) and it should only be considered maintenance anyways. While there are other solutions out there, powermocks whitebox still seems best there and it can be isolated to just that module rather than how it is today. Other than that, I think rest would be fairly modern here, still java 8 compatible, and now shows java 21 compatibility.

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[damianszczepanik]

This is great job to have it merged. Can you split this into smaller PR so I can easily review them one by one ?

[hazendaz]

Thanks, will be maybe a week to get back to this but will break it up for you in smaller commits.

[hazendaz]

keeping open for moment but splitting out into smaller PRs as noted as well as rebased against master.

[hazendaz]

@damianszczepanik For now I sent as much to review as feasible for the moment. Some of what I did not send requires some of the other items to be in place. If you could review those when you have time, as merged I will rebase this branch until such time its cleared out. Its otherwise just for reference now. When done, I'll move forward and upgrade to full junit 5 jupiter here too.

I did see you added dependabot, I would suggest Renovate as a much better alternative. Dependabot will still get used in some regard for security alerts but Renovate now also supports those too and dependabot will fail to find all. If not familar with Renovate, please check out this repo of mine that has a lot of PRs on it as well as a dependency issue tracker that shows what the repo has going on. Its a more advanced config setup as I'm getting ready to split that said repo between javax and jakarta namespaces so I have it running twice on 2 different branches for that longer term need. Renovate dashboard https://github.com/psi-probe/psi-probe/issues/2205 and see open PRs https://github.com/psi-probe/psi-probe/pulls to get an idea on how that one works.

[hazendaz]

You can find renovate in the marketplace!

[hazendaz]

going to close this one as it was for tracking and these can start coming in normally at this point.