Improve Maven setup #1565
Description
Currently we have quite a few modules in the Java SDK. However the Maven setup is far from ideal.
Here are a few if the issues that have been identified:
- Version management - we have different dependencies spread across modules. Sometimes versions are conflicting
- Incorrect plugin management
- Duplicated dependencies - this is problematic for upgrades and also when dealing with things like tests and examples since some of those are quite different.
The plan is to have a few PRs that would address this one by one.