diff --git a/chapter-2/chapter-2-simple-project/pom.xml b/chapter-2/chapter-2-simple-project/pom.xml
index 723875d8..f7341764 100644
--- a/chapter-2/chapter-2-simple-project/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-3/chapter-3-quarkus-rest-json/pom.xml b/chapter-3/chapter-3-quarkus-rest-json/pom.xml
index 0463e71c..d03edcff 100644
--- a/chapter-3/chapter-3-quarkus-rest-json/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-activerecord/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-activerecord/pom.xml
index 9cae55ea..bbdd973f 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-activerecord/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-activerecord/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-activerecord/pom.xml
index f4cedbd6..b98bb7f5 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-activerecord/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-repository/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-repository/pom.xml
index 7b8c81b7..4305156d 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-repository/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-repository/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-repository/pom.xml
index 2150e9de..259bd0fe 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-repository/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-cloud-events/pom.xml b/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-cloud-events/pom.xml
index 647e0930..00c5c5db 100644
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diff --git a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-kafka-streams/pom.xml b/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-kafka-streams/pom.xml
index 57e9d0e1..ebc9b35c 100644
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diff --git a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-vertx-eventbus/pom.xml b/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-vertx-eventbus/pom.xml
index 93a13135..99144b81 100644
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-cloud-config/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-cloud-config/pom.xml
index 7eb7ba06..da2bc81a 100644
--- a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-cloud-config/pom.xml
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index 8fea6285..87dcd1bb 100644
--- a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-config/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-database/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-database/pom.xml
index 555a540d..d07a5548 100644
--- a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-database/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-debug/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-debug/pom.xml
index d720de92..8a29a9dd 100644
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-monitoring/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-monitoring/pom.xml
index bf232aaa..9e3e229d 100644
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index 61cfbfea..8f47a4df 100644
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