cloudevents · jacekbilski · May 19, 2026 · May 19, 2026 · May 20, 2026 · May 20, 2026
diff --git a/.mvn/wrapper/MavenWrapperDownloader.java b/.mvn/wrapper/MavenWrapperDownloader.java
diff --git a/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties b/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.6.3/apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.zip
-wrapperUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/takari/maven-wrapper/0.5.6/maven-wrapper-0.5.6.jar
+wrapperVersion=3.3.4
+distributionType=only-script
+distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.16/apache-maven-3.9.16-bin.zip
diff --git a/amqp/pom.xml b/amqp/pom.xml
@@ -13,13 +13,12 @@
 	<name>CloudEvents - Proton AMQP Binding</name>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 
-    <properties>
-       <protonj.version>0.34.1</protonj.version>
-       <jsr305.version>3.0.2</jsr305.version>
-        <module-name>io.cloudevents.amqp.proton</module-name>
-    </properties>
+	<properties>
+		<protonj.version>0.34.1</protonj.version>
+		<module-name>io.cloudevents.amqp.proton</module-name>
+	</properties>
 
-    <dependencies>
+	<dependencies>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.qpid</groupId>
 			<artifactId>proton-j</artifactId>
@@ -43,6 +42,7 @@
 			<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
 			<artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
 			<version>${junit-jupiter.version}</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>io.cloudevents</groupId>

diff --git a/api/pom.xml b/api/pom.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
             <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.2</version>
+            <version>${jsr305.version}</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
             <optional>true</optional>
         </dependency>

diff --git a/benchmarks/pom.xml b/benchmarks/pom.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.8.0</version>
+                <version>3.15.0</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <compilerVersion>${javac.target}</compilerVersion>
                     <source>${javac.target}</source>
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.2.1</version>
+                <version>3.6.2</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <phase>package</phase>
@@ -133,35 +133,35 @@
             <plugins>
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>2.5</version>
+                    <version>3.5.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>2.8.1</version>
+                    <version>3.1.4</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.1.3</version>
+                    <version>3.1.4</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                     <version>3.5.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>2.9.1</version>
+                    <version>3.12.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
                     <version>3.5.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.3</version>
+                    <version>3.21.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.3.0</version>
+                    <version>3.4.0</version>
                 </plugin>
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>

diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
             <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.2</version>
+            <version>${jsr305.version}</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
             <optional>true</optional>
         </dependency>
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.5.0</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <goals>

diff --git a/docs/amqp-proton.md b/docs/amqp-proton.md
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ nav_order: 5
 
 This module implements `MessageReader` and `MessageWriter` using the Qpid Proton
 library. It can be used with Qpid Proton or any integrations based on Qpid
-Proton (e.g vertx-proton).
+Proton (e.g. vertx-proton).
 
-For Maven based projects, use the following to configure the `proton` AMQP
+For Maven-based projects, use the following to configure the `proton` AMQP
 binding for CloudEvents:
 
 ```xml

diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ nav_order: 2
 This module contains the interfaces to represent `CloudEvent` in memory and to
 read and write an object using as CloudEvent.
 
-For Maven based projects, use the following dependency:
+For Maven-based projects, use the following dependency:
 
 ```xml
 
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ binary mode containing a valid CloudEvent can be translated to a
 CloudEvent, hence an eventual response builder could implement
 `CloudEventWriter`.
 
-`CloudEventReader` and `CloudEventWriter` implementations doesn't have any
-particular knowledge about specification version, difference between attributes
+`CloudEventReader` and `CloudEventWriter` implementations do not have any
+particular knowledge about a specification version, difference between attributes
 and extensions, and so on. Their only concern is how to read and write context
 attributes and data back and forth to the "CloudEvents type system", as defined
 in the package `io.cloudevents`.

diff --git a/docs/avro.md b/docs/avro.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ nav_order: 4
 This module provides the Avro Compact `EventFormat` implementation.
 
 # Setup
-For Maven based projects, use the following dependency:
+For Maven-based projects, use the following dependency:
 
 ```xml
 <dependency>

diff --git a/docs/core.md b/docs/core.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ nav_order: 3
 This package includes implementations and utilities to create and process
 `CloudEvent` and interfaces to deal with Protocol Bindings and Event Formats.
 
-For Maven based projects, use the following dependency:
+For Maven-based projects, use the following dependency:
 
 ```xml
 <dependency>

diff --git a/docs/http-jakarta-restful-ws.md b/docs/http-jakarta-restful-ws.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Please migrate to Jakarta EE 9+ and use the `cloudevents-http-restful-ws-jakarta
 
 [![Javadocs](http://www.javadoc.io/badge/io.cloudevents/cloudevents-http-restful-ws.svg?color=green)](http://www.javadoc.io/doc/io.cloudevents/cloudevents-http-restful-ws)
 
-For Maven based projects, use the following to configure the CloudEvents Jakarta
+For Maven-based projects, use the following to configure the CloudEvents Jakarta
 RESTful Web Services Binding for Jakarta EE 8:
 
 ```xml

diff --git a/docs/http-vertx.md b/docs/http-vertx.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ nav_order: 5
 
 [![Javadocs](http://www.javadoc.io/badge/io.cloudevents/cloudevents-http-vertx.svg?color=green)](http://www.javadoc.io/doc/io.cloudevents/cloudevents-http-vertx)
 
-For Maven based projects, use the following to configure the CloudEvents Vertx
+For Maven-based projects, use the following to configure the CloudEvents Vertx
 HTTP Transport:
 
 ```xml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class CloudEventServerVerticle extends AbstractVerticle {
 
 ## Sending CloudEvents
 
-Below is a sample on how to use the client to send and receive a CloudEvent:
+Below is a sample of how to use the client to send and receive a CloudEvent:
 
 ```java
 import io.cloudevents.CloudEvent;

diff --git a/docs/json-jackson.md b/docs/json-jackson.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: CloudEvents Json Jackson
 nav_order: 4
 ---
 
-# CloudEvents Json Jackson
+# CloudEvents JSON Jackson
 
 [![Javadocs](http://www.javadoc.io/badge/io.cloudevents/cloudevents-json-jackson.svg?color=green)](http://www.javadoc.io/doc/io.cloudevents/cloudevents-json-jackson)
 

diff --git a/docs/kafka.md b/docs/kafka.md
@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@ nav_order: 5
 
 Implementation of Kafka Protocol Binding to send and receive CloudEvents.
 
-For Maven based projects, use the following to configure the
+For Maven-based projects, use the following to configure the
 [Kafka Protocol Binding](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/main/kafka-protocol-binding.md):
 
 ```xml
-
 <dependency>
     <groupId>io.cloudevents</groupId>
     <artifactId>cloudevents-kafka</artifactId>

diff --git a/docs/protobuf.md b/docs/protobuf.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Protobuf runtime and classes generated from the CloudEvents
 [proto spec](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/v1.0.1/spec.proto).
 
 # Setup
-For Maven based projects, use the following dependency:
+For Maven-based projects, use the following dependency:
 
 ```xml
 <dependency>