[GOODBOY008]

Problem

The root pom.xml manages two Spring Boot artifacts that nothing in the project uses:

<spring-boot-starter-web.version>2.7.18</spring-boot-starter-web.version>
...
<dependency>org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web</dependency>
<dependency>org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test</dependency> <!-- test scope -->

Verified on main:

• no module POM declares either artifact (git grep spring-boot -- '*.xml' hits only the root POM);
• no Java source references org.springframework.boot (the spring.md docs pages describe downstream Spring integration, not a build dependency);
• a reactor-wide mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.springframework.boot resolves zero artifacts.

The pins are also stale by policy: Spring Boot 2.7 is EOL, and history shows the entries are dead weight — dependabot's bump of the managed version (#583) was closed unmerged, and the starter-module proposal (#616) was closed too. Until removed, the 2.7.18 pin keeps showing up in dependency scans of every generated POM.

Change

Delete the spring-boot-starter-web.version property and the two dependencyManagement entries. 12 lines removed, nothing else touched. spring-core stays — it is a real dependency (shaded in fesod-shaded).

Notes for reviewers

• Open PR [Feat] Introduce cli tool #769 (cli tool) re-introduces an examples module that declares spring-boot-starter-test without a version, relying on this management entry. If that PR moves forward it should pin its own version (or propose a fresh, current management entry) rather than depend on an EOL 2.7.18 pin — happy to help rebase it if that lands first.
• No behavioural or API impact: managed entries with no consumers cannot affect the built artifacts.

Verification

$ ./mvnw -q dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.springframework.boot   # no artifacts resolved
$ ./mvnw -DskipTests package
BUILD SUCCESS

Full reactor builds green with the entries removed.

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[GOODBOY008]

Rebased onto the latest main (conflict was with the fastjson2 removal in #1256 touching the same properties block — resolved by keeping both deletions). New head: ea776bb, still a pure 12-line deletion.

For reviewers, some history on why these entries existed in the first place: they were left over from the fesod-examples module (removed in #1028, 2026-08-25). That module's POM declared spring-boot-starter-web and spring-boot-starter-test without versions, relying exactly on these root dependencyManagement entries:

$ git show cdf48b71^:fesod-examples/fesod-sheet-examples/pom.xml
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>   <!-- no version -->
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>  <!-- no version -->
        </dependency>

When the examples module was removed, the management entries were not cleaned up along with it — since then they pin an EOL Spring Boot 2.7.18 that nothing resolves anymore (reactor-wide dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.springframework.boot is empty). Hence this cleanup.

[bengbengbalabalabeng]

LGTM.