Use Maven 4 as the runtime for m2eclipse

[laeubi]

Maven 4 will soon be released and should be able to execute Maven 3 projects as well. We should therefore upgrade m2e to use Maven 4 from now on.

For users that require Maven 3.9 line we can offer the latest 3.9.11 maven runtime as an additional install option like we already did for Maven 3.9.6

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Test Results

109 files   -   215  109 suites   - 215   18m 38s ⏱️ - 53m 18s
694 tests +    2  132 ✅  -   538  21 💤 ± 0  10 ❌ +10  531 🔥 +530 
740 runs   - 1 336  132 ✅  - 1 880  21 💤  - 42  10 ❌ +10  577 🔥 +576 

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[laeubi]

FYI @stbischof and @danthe1st as I know you are interested in Maven 4 support.

This at least already compiles ...

[stbischof]

Whooop whooop!!!!! Thank you a lot for your work

[laeubi]

All tests are passing... except some of the flapping ones.

So that's already promising, and as there is discussions about release Maven 4 soon (finally, really!) I think we then can quite easily upgrade here.

So next logical step would be to create a Maven 4 testcase to see if maven features actually work!

[laeubi]

We get a lot of deprecation warnings now but that is expected and we should fix those later on.
We maybe even just accept those for now to retain backward compatible for users that choose to use an older runtime.

One thing we need to check is if the new runtime is actually used for run the tests!

[laeubi]

It seems I was a bit to optimistic here, while the runtime itself compiles, due to we include the old ones as well these where picked up, if I enforce Maven 4 runtime the test fails (see previous commit) and if I enforce it to be used for compilation there are also compile error... so we need to check if

1. We can provide some "Compatibilty-Classes"
2. We can only support Maven 3 or Maven 4 ... what would be a bit unfortunate given not all plugins/extensions are yet compatible with maven 4 and it is unclear if Maven 4 is really completely compatible.

[akurtakov]

Wouldn't apache/maven#2380 supposed to help in this case?

[laeubi]

See also discussion here:

• The future evolution of m2eclipse #2065

[HannesWell]

The old link should continue to work as there should automated redirect to the archive.

[HannesWell]

Can we move this to a separate PR?

[laeubi]

@HannesWell this is currently only a draft so may contain some changes that must be cleaned up before a final version. I now have made it to compile again with Maven4 but possibly retain backwards compatible with Maven 3.9.x ...