[MS3] Modernization #1

[grobmeier]

• Automatic generation of JPMS and OSGi descriptors #1830
• Upgrade Core dependencies

[ppkarwasz]

#1819 is part of this milestone.

[ppkarwasz]

Dependencies are managed by Dependabot, with a Github Action that automatically merges them if the build is successful.

Since the branch release/2.21.0 these upgrades were accepted for the next release:

• Bump com.h2database:h2 from 2.2.222 to 2.2.224 #1796,
• Bump net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy from 1.14.7 to 1.14.8 #1797,
• Bump github/codeql-action from 2.21.7 to 2.21.8 #1802,
• Bump actions/setup-java from 3.12.0 to 3.13.0 #1808,
• Bump spring-boot.version from 2.7.15 to 2.7.16 #1810,
• Bump actions/checkout from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0 #1816,
• Bump github/codeql-action from 2.21.8 to 2.21.9 #1824,
• Bump org.ow2.asm:asm-bom from 9.5 to 9.6 #1837,
• Bump org.zeromq:jeromq from 0.5.3 to 0.5.4 #1839,
• Bump github/codeql-action from 2.21.9 to 2.22.0 #1847.