This is one of the steps required for kafka to compile with Java 21.
For each case, one of the following fixes were applied:
1. Suppress warning if fixing would potentially result in an incompatible change (for public classes)
2. Add final to one or more methods so that the escape is not possible
3. Replace method calls with direct field access.
In addition, we also fix a couple of compiler warnings related to deprecated references in the `core` module.
See the following for more details regarding the new lint warning:
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/21-relnote-issues.html#JDK-8015831
Reviewers: Divij Vaidya <diviv@amazon.com>, Satish Duggana <satishd@apache.org>, Chris Egerton <chrise@aiven.io>
Ismael Juma