From 80194a6f144ad6a5c947ec85c5b2319f147593d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konrad Neitzel <konrad@MacBookPro.fritz.box>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2026 11:41:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update dependencies and align the compiler setup for JDK 25.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
---
 README.md |  4 ++--
 pom.xml   | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1e9b3c9..a6f55fe 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Example Maven Project for a Java Application.
 
-**Update**: Java 25 is now fully supported
+**Update**: Java 25 is now fully supported. This template is built and tested with JDK 25.
 
 **Update**: Added reporting to create a site (html documentation of project)
 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ This project includes:
 
 ## Requirements
 To use this Template, all you need is a local Java Installation.
-My current advice is to use a long term supported (LTS) version of either Java 17 or Java 21.
+The project targets Java 25 (`<java.version>25</java.version>`). My current advice for general production use is still a long term supported (LTS) version of either Java 17 or Java 21.
 
 ## Documentation
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ea8313b..7b62be5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -28,32 +28,32 @@
         <jar.filename>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</jar.filename>
 
         <!-- Dependency versions -->
-        <jetbrains.annotations.version>26.0.2-1</jetbrains.annotations.version>
-        <junit.version>6.0.1</junit.version>
-        <lombok.version>1.18.42</lombok.version>
-        <mockito.version>5.20.0</mockito.version>
-        <spotbugs.version>4.9.8</spotbugs.version>
+        <jetbrains.annotations.version>26.1.0</jetbrains.annotations.version>
+        <junit.version>6.1.3</junit.version>
+        <lombok.version>1.18.48</lombok.version>
+        <mockito.version>5.23.0</mockito.version>
+        <spotbugs.version>4.10.4</spotbugs.version>
 
         <!-- Plugin dependencies -->
-        <codehaus.version.plugin>2.20.1</codehaus.version.plugin>
+        <codehaus.version.plugin>2.21.0</codehaus.version.plugin>
         <jpackage.maven.plugin>0.1.5</jpackage.maven.plugin>
         <maven.clean.plugin>3.5.0</maven.clean.plugin>
-        <maven.compiler.plugin>3.14.1</maven.compiler.plugin>
-        <maven.dependency.plugin>3.9.0</maven.dependency.plugin>
+        <maven.compiler.plugin>3.16.0</maven.compiler.plugin>
+        <maven.dependency.plugin>3.11.0</maven.dependency.plugin>
         <maven.deploy.plugin>3.1.4</maven.deploy.plugin>
-        <maven.enforcer.plugin>3.6.2</maven.enforcer.plugin>
+        <maven.enforcer.plugin>3.6.3</maven.enforcer.plugin>
         <maven.install.plugin>3.1.4</maven.install.plugin>
-        <maven.jar.plugin>3.5.0</maven.jar.plugin>
+        <maven.jar.plugin>3.5.1</maven.jar.plugin>
         <maven.javadoc.plugin>3.12.0</maven.javadoc.plugin>
         <maven.pmd.plugin>3.28.0</maven.pmd.plugin>
         <maven.project.info.reports.plugin>3.9.0</maven.project.info.reports.plugin>
-        <maven.resources.plugin>3.4.0</maven.resources.plugin>
-        <maven.shade.plugin>3.6.1</maven.shade.plugin>
+        <maven.resources.plugin>3.5.0</maven.resources.plugin>
+        <maven.shade.plugin>3.6.2</maven.shade.plugin>
         <maven.site.plugin>4.0.0-M16</maven.site.plugin>
-        <maven.surfire.plugin>3.5.4</maven.surfire.plugin>
+        <maven.surfire.plugin>3.6.0</maven.surfire.plugin>
         <moditect.maven.plugin>1.0.0.RC2</moditect.maven.plugin>
         <native.maven.plugin>0.11.3</native.maven.plugin>
-        <spotbugs.maven.plugin>4.9.8.2</spotbugs.maven.plugin>
+        <spotbugs.maven.plugin>4.10.4.1</spotbugs.maven.plugin>
         
         <!-- other properties -->
         <pmd.target>pmd</pmd.target> <!-- Set to 'pmd' if pmd should not fail on issues. Set to 'check' if you want build to fail when issues found -->
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
-        <required.maven.version>3.8.6</required.maven.version>
+        <maven.compiler.release>${java.version}</maven.compiler.release>
+        <required.maven.version>3.9.11</required.maven.version>
 
     </properties>
 
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@
             <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
             <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
             <version>${lombok.version}</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- JUnit 5 -->
@@ -142,6 +144,16 @@
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                 <version>${maven.compiler.plugin}</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <release>${java.version}</release>
+                    <annotationProcessorPaths>
+                        <path>
+                            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
+                            <version>${lombok.version}</version>
+                        </path>
+                    </annotationProcessorPaths>
+                </configuration>
             </plugin>
 
             <!--Test execution -->