Upgrade to Gradle 9.1.0 and compatible Spring Boot plugins

Co-authored-by: claymccoy <2743+claymccoy@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: Copilot

build.gradle

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java'
-    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.2.0'
-    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.4'
+    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.4.5'
+    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.7'
     id 'pmd'
     id 'checkstyle'
 }
@@ -72,5 +72,5 @@ tasks.named('test') {
 // Custom task for CI builds
 task ciBuild {
     dependsOn 'clean', 'test', 'pmdMain', 'checkstyleMain', 'build'
-    description 'Complete CI build with tests, static analysis, and coverage'
+    description = 'Complete CI build with tests, static analysis, and coverage'
 }

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.1.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME