Convert Spring Boot 3 / quarkus / armeria / vertx to smoke-test plugin

[bric3]

What Does This Do

Drop-in conversion of ten more nested-build smoke tests to the dd-trace-java.smoke-test-app plugin added in #11405. All ten previously shelled out to a gradlew via an Exec task — either the root build's (which might become incompatible with their plugin down the road).

Spring Boot 3 / Gradle nested build, root-gradlew Exec:

• spring-boot-3.0-webflux
• spring-boot-3.0-webmvc
• spring-boot-3.3-webmvc
• kafka-3

Non-Spring Gradle nested build, root-gradlew Exec:

• quarkus (Quarkus 1.9.2 platform, Java 8 application)
• armeria-grpc

Inner Gradle wrapper (committed) → Tooling API:

• Removed gradle wrappers in vertx-3.4, vertx-3.9, vertx-3.9-resteasy, vertx-4.2; by convention the smoke-test-app plugin pins Gradle to 8.14.5, and uses Java 21.

Each outer build.gradle collapses to a small block

smokeTestApp { application { taskName
nestedTasks
artifactPath
sysProperty
}
projectJar(...)
}

Before the definition looked like:

tasks.register('bootJar', Exec) {
workingDir appDir
environment += [
"GRADLE_OPTS": "-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs='-Xmx512M'",
"JAVA_HOME": getLazyJavaHomeFor(17)
]
commandLine "$rootDir/${gradlewCommand}", "bootJar", "--no-daemon", "--max-workers=4", "-PappBuildDir=$appBuildDir"
outputs.cacheIf { true }
outputs.dir(appBuildDir)
.withPropertyName("applicationJar")
inputs.files(fileTree(appDir) {
include '**/*'
exclude '.gradle/**'
})
.withPropertyName("application")
.withPathSensitivity(PathSensitivity.RELATIVE)
group('build')
}

Each inner application/build.gradle targets explicitly :

• Java 8 for quarkus and the vertx modules
• Java 17 for the rest (testJvmConstraints required Java 17)
• kafka-3 swaps its toolchain.languageVersion for sourceCompatibility to avoid pulling a separate JDK 17 toolchain on top of the daemon's JDK 21

Inner Gradle wrappers and shell script are removed.

Motivation

These are the remaining straightforward Gradle-based nested smoke tests after Patterns B / C / D / E (#11406, #11407, #11408, #11417). With this PR landed, the only nested-build smoke tests still on plain Exec are

• the two GraalVM-native ones (quarkus-native, spring-boot-3.0-native)
• and the two Maven ones (springboot-openliberty-{20,23}).

Both groups need different treatment.

Additional Notes

• Stacked on Add smoke-test plugin for nested Gradle builds #11405
• Verified locally on Gradle 9.5.1: all ten nested builds produce their expected artifact; representative smoke tests (spring-boot-3.0-webmvc, kafka-3, vertx-3.9) pass with -PskipFlakyTests=true.

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[sarahchen6]

(late but) nice cleanup 💯