Update to latest Shadow plugin

[msridhar]

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Build and Packaging
  • Updated the packaging toolchain for improved compatibility and maintenance.
  • Preserved service provider resources when creating bundled JAR files, helping packaged applications discover required services reliably.
  • Improved Maven publication configuration for bundled artifacts.

[msridhar]

This change is part of the following stack:

• Update to latest Shadow plugin #1658 ◀

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• gradle/libs.versions.toml
• jar-infer/jar-infer-cli/build.gradle
• jdk-annotations/astubx-generator-cli/build.gradle

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Walkthrough

Updates the Shadow Gradle plugin from 8.3.8 to 9.6.1, preserves duplicate META-INF/services/** resources in two shaded jars, and changes the shadow Maven publication to use components.shadow.

Suggested reviewers: yuxincs, lazaroclapp

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly matches the main change: updating the Shadow plugin to a newer version.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 88.06%. Comparing base (0a04dc6) to head (eb38b11).

Additional details and impacted files

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