Upgrade to Spring Boot 4

[steven-sheehy]

Description:

• Bump Cucumber from 7.23.0 to 7.34.1
• Bump CycloneDX plugin from 2.4.1 to 3.0.1
• Bump Hypersistence Utils from hibernate-63:3.14.1 to hibernate-71:3.15.0
• Bump Spring Boot from 3.5.9 to 4.0.2
• Bump Spring gRPC from 0.12.0 to 1.0.2
• Change to use modularized Spring boot dependencies
• Drop commons-lang3 overridden version
• Replace custom built web3j Gradle plugin with official 5.0.2

Related issue(s):

Fixes #12482

Notes for reviewer:

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• Tested (unit, integration, etc.)

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Coverage variation	Diff coverage
❌ -39.22% (target: -1.00%)	✅ 96.92%

Coverage variation details

	Coverable lines	Covered lines	Coverage
Common ancestor commit (a0bacaa)	27287	25619	93.89%
Head commit (3faff18)	52817 (+25530)	28875 (+3256)	54.67% (-39.22%)

Coverage variation is the difference between the coverage for the head and common ancestor commits of the pull request branch: <coverage of head commit> - <coverage of common ancestor commit>

Diff coverage details

	Coverable lines	Covered lines	Diff coverage
Pull request (#12868)	65	63	96.92%

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[xin-hedera]

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[xin-hedera]

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