diff --git a/algorithms-modules/algorithms-miscellaneous-2/pom.xml b/algorithms-modules/algorithms-miscellaneous-2/pom.xml
index ca14533e82..e04c22680a 100644
--- a/algorithms-modules/algorithms-miscellaneous-2/pom.xml
+++ b/algorithms-modules/algorithms-miscellaneous-2/pom.xml
@@ -14,16 +14,6 @@
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-math3</artifactId>
-            <version>${commons-math3.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
-            <version>${commons-codec.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
             <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
diff --git a/algorithms-modules/algorithms-miscellaneous-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/DijkstraAlgorithmLongRunningUnitTest.java b/algorithms-modules/algorithms-miscellaneous-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/DijkstraAlgorithmLongRunningUnitTest.java
index 7e80d335be..849eb86427 100644
--- a/algorithms-modules/algorithms-miscellaneous-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/DijkstraAlgorithmLongRunningUnitTest.java
+++ b/algorithms-modules/algorithms-miscellaneous-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/algorithms/DijkstraAlgorithmLongRunningUnitTest.java
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 package com.baeldung.algorithms;
 
-
-
 import com.baeldung.algorithms.ga.dijkstra.Dijkstra;
 import com.baeldung.algorithms.ga.dijkstra.Graph;
 import com.baeldung.algorithms.ga.dijkstra.Node;
diff --git a/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-aegis/pom.xml b/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-aegis/pom.xml
index 6b9e026cdd..d013aabc65 100644
--- a/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-aegis/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-aegis/pom.xml
@@ -20,8 +20,4 @@
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
-    <properties>
-        <cxf.version>4.0.0</cxf.version>
-    </properties>
-
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-introduction/pom.xml b/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-introduction/pom.xml
index fdcd100cc5..5e68bf3cbf 100644
--- a/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-introduction/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-introduction/pom.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
     </build>
 
     <properties>
-        <cxf.version>4.0.0</cxf.version>
         <jakarta-xml.version>4.0.0</jakarta-xml.version>
         <jakarta.jws.version>3.0.0</jakarta.jws.version>
     </properties>
diff --git a/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-jaxrs-implementation/pom.xml b/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-jaxrs-implementation/pom.xml
index 8418853b1e..978c5a51ed 100644
--- a/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-jaxrs-implementation/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-jaxrs-implementation/pom.xml
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
             <artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs</artifactId>
-            <version>4.0.0</version>
+            <version>${cxf.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
             <artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http-jetty</artifactId>
-            <version>4.0.0</version>
+            <version>${cxf.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>jakarta.xml.ws</groupId>
diff --git a/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-spring/pom.xml b/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-spring/pom.xml
index 67a61e8200..234a19eebc 100644
--- a/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-spring/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-cxf-modules/cxf-spring/pom.xml
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@
     </profiles>
 
     <properties>
+        <cxf.version>3.1.8</cxf.version>
         <spring.version>5.3.25</spring.version>
         <cargo-maven2-plugin.version>1.6.1</cargo-maven2-plugin.version>
         <jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
diff --git a/apache-cxf-modules/pom.xml b/apache-cxf-modules/pom.xml
index 63c4e16747..245a31614b 100644
--- a/apache-cxf-modules/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-cxf-modules/pom.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     </build>
 
     <properties>
-        <cxf.version>3.1.8</cxf.version>
+        <cxf.version>4.0.0</cxf.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/apache-cxf-modules/sse-jaxrs/sse-jaxrs-client/pom.xml b/apache-cxf-modules/sse-jaxrs/sse-jaxrs-client/pom.xml
index ce2b0059c3..b092345334 100644
--- a/apache-cxf-modules/sse-jaxrs/sse-jaxrs-client/pom.xml
+++ b/apache-cxf-modules/sse-jaxrs/sse-jaxrs-client/pom.xml
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
             <artifactId>cxf-rt-rs-client</artifactId>
-            <version>${cxf-version}</version>
+            <version>${cxf.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
             <artifactId>cxf-rt-rs-sse</artifactId>
-            <version>${cxf-version}</version>
+            <version>${cxf.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>jakarta.ws.rs</groupId>
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
     </build>
 
     <properties>
-        <cxf-version>4.0.0</cxf-version>
         <jakarta-ws.version>3.1.0</jakarta-ws.version>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics-4/pom.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics-4/pom.xml
index 7e8ef257c7..b54ed01161 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics-4/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics-4/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
             <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2</version>
+            <version>${jstl.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
@@ -39,4 +38,8 @@
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
+    <properties>
+        <jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
+    </properties>
+
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
index 213d44f350..e7c66ac0ee 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
             <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
-            <scope>test</scope>
             <version>${json-path.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-session/pom.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-session/pom.xml
index aec64da088..119c71af55 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-session/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-session/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-session</artifactId>
     <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>spring-session</name>
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-thymeleaf/pom.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-thymeleaf/pom.xml
index ca94d4581e..9f6c62847d 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-thymeleaf/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-thymeleaf/pom.xml
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>${maven-war-plugin.version}</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                 </configuration>
diff --git a/testing-modules/selenide/pom.xml b/testing-modules/selenide/pom.xml
index 99538d2d14..791dead47d 100644
--- a/testing-modules/selenide/pom.xml
+++ b/testing-modules/selenide/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.codeborne</groupId>
             <artifactId>selenide</artifactId>
-            <version>6.15.0</version>
+            <version>${selenide.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
     </build>
 
     <properties>
+        <selenide.version>6.15.0</selenide.version>
         <testng.version>6.10</testng.version>
         <selenium-java.version>4.8.3</selenium-java.version>
         <webdrivermanager.version>5.3.2</webdrivermanager.version>
diff --git a/timefold-solver/pom.xml b/timefold-solver/pom.xml
index a16afb9e54..8ef97c337a 100644
--- a/timefold-solver/pom.xml
+++ b/timefold-solver/pom.xml
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@
     </dependencies>
 
     <properties>
-        <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
-        <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
         <version.ai.timefold.solver>1.4.0</version.ai.timefold.solver>
     </properties>