2) Downgrade NB Pulsar version from 2.11.1 to 2.10.4 to avoid NB S4J execution failure (runtime version conflict)
3) Fix S4J Adaptor metrics labeling conflict
4) Change the space shutdown logic for NB Pulsar, Kafka, and S4J such that to simply log an error message instead of throwing out a run-time exception (NB is shutting down anyway).
5) Minor update of NB Kafka and NB S4J properties file and add settings for connecting to Astra Streaming
* Ignore .flattened-pom.xml files from the CI-friendly flattening
* Allow newer versions to squelch version warning
* * switch to CI-friendly revisions in Maven
* add flattener
* refactor version tags
* remove unecesary indirection in poms which break version intellisense
* * switch to CI-friendly revisions in Maven
* add flattener
* refactor version tags
* remove unnecessary indirection in poms which break version intellisense
* deleting commented code
* version dep updates
* streamline LUT trimming options
* use a more explicit regex substituion technique
* specify updated okhttp version
* update resources plugin to bugfixed version
* exclude filtering for problematic files
* Jacoco introduced for full reporting of test coverage.
* All modules included in scope.
* Ability to scope to module OR overall reporting.
* Ability to run in dev environment and bypass as needed w/out GHA.
