General minor code clean up and typo fixes

pom.xml

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
         <!-- Set default for non-git clones -->
         <git.commit.id>Unknown</git.commit.id>
 
-        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
+        <java.version>1.17</java.version>
         <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>