Upgrade dependencies and improve Readme.md

[patbaumgartner]

• Updated Maven & Gradle Plugins
• Updated Maven & Gradle Wrapper to the current distribution
• Updated the DB containers dependency
• Updated webjars
• Improved the Readme

[patbaumgartner]

Hi @dsyer some of my changes were not addressed by the Spring Boot 3.2 upgrade. Therefore, I created a new one with the latest adjustments.

[dsyer]

Tiny question in comments. Thanks for all the effort.

[dsyer]

Did we need to delete all these links? They seem useful to me.

[patbaumgartner]

Hi @dsyer Unfortunately the links are not visible rendered on GitHubs website or anywhere else. It's incorrect MD which is ignored. Also the list is incomplete, because the spring pet clinic GH organization contains way more repos than those. The GH organization is linked in the section "Interesting Spring Petclinic branches and forks". These links should also go to that section or get their own title. It's too much of a mess, so I thought it's better to remove them.

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