I have a simple server App like so:

import io.vertx.core.AbstractVerticle;
import io.vertx.core.Future;
import io.vertx.core.Promise;
import io.vertx.core.Vertx;
import io.vertx.core.http.HttpServer;
import io.vertx.core.http.HttpServerOptions;
import io.vertx.ext.web.Router;
import io.vertx.ext.web.openapi.RouterBuilder;
import io.vertx.serviceproxy.ServiceBinder;

public class App {
    private static String SERVER_OPT = "--server-opt";

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Testing
        Vertx vertx = Vertx.vertx();
        vertx.deployVerticle(new ServerApp());
    }
}

public class ServerApp extends AbstractVerticle {
    HttpServer server;
    ServiceBinder serviceBinder;

    private final int DEFAULT_PORT = 8080;

    @Override
    public void start(Promise<Void> promise) {
        serviceBinder = new ServiceBinder(this.vertx);

        // First we need to init the service binders that correspond with the application logic.
        startServiceBinder();

    }


    private void startServiceBinder() {
        TestService test = TestService.create(this.vertx);

        serviceBinder
                .setAddress(“a.test”)
                .register(TestService.class, test);
    }
}

Every time I try to start and run the App I am met with the following error message:

16:00:39.701 [main] ERROR vertx-stack-resolver -- Service creation failure: org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/pull/XmlPullParserException
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/pull/XmlPullParserException
    at org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilderFactory.newModelReader(DefaultModelBuilderFactory.java:94)
    at org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilderFactory.newModelProcessor(DefaultModelBuilderFactory.java:83)
    at org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilderFactory.newInstance(DefaultModelBuilderFactory.java:211)
    at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.initService(DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.java:135)
    at org.eclipse.aether.impl.DefaultServiceLocator$Entry.newInstance(DefaultServiceLocator.java:171)
    at org.eclipse.aether.impl.DefaultServiceLocator$Entry.getInstances(DefaultServiceLocator.java:141)
    at org.eclipse.aether.impl.DefaultServiceLocator$Entry.getInstance(DefaultServiceLocator.java:127)
    at org.eclipse.aether.impl.DefaultServiceLocator.getService(DefaultServiceLocator.java:291)
    at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultRepositorySystem.initService(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:143)
    at org.eclipse.aether.impl.DefaultServiceLocator$Entry.newInstance(DefaultServiceLocator.java:171)
    at org.eclipse.aether.impl.DefaultServiceLocator$Entry.getInstances(DefaultServiceLocator.java:141)
    at org.eclipse.aether.impl.DefaultServiceLocator$Entry.getInstance(DefaultServiceLocator.java:127)
    at org.eclipse.aether.impl.DefaultServiceLocator.getService(DefaultServiceLocator.java:291)
    at io.vertx.maven.resolver.ResolverImpl.<init>(ResolverImpl.java:88)
    at io.vertx.maven.Resolver.create(Resolver.java:58)
    at io.vertx.maven.MavenVerticleFactory.<init>(MavenVerticleFactory.java:71)
    at io.vertx.maven.MavenVerticleFactory.<init>(MavenVerticleFactory.java:54)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:77)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:499)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:480)
    at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader$ProviderImpl.newInstance(ServiceLoader.java:789)
    at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader$ProviderImpl.get(ServiceLoader.java:729)
    at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader$3.next(ServiceLoader.java:1403)
    at java.base/java.util.Iterator.forEachRemaining(Iterator.java:133)
    at io.vertx.core.ServiceHelper.loadFactories(ServiceHelper.java:58)
    at io.vertx.core.ServiceHelper.loadFactories(ServiceHelper.java:44)
    at io.vertx.core.impl.VerticleManager.loadVerticleFactories(VerticleManager.java:48)
    at io.vertx.core.impl.VerticleManager.<init>(VerticleManager.java:44)
    at io.vertx.core.impl.VertxImpl.<init>(VertxImpl.java:231)
    at io.vertx.core.impl.VertxBuilder.vertx(VertxBuilder.java:229)
    at io.vertx.core.Vertx$1.build(Vertx.java:126)
    at io.vertx.core.Vertx.vertx(Vertx.java:151)
    at io.vertx.core.Vertx.vertx(Vertx.java:141)
    at com.a.b.c.d.App.main(App.java:18)

Here are the relevant portion of the overall build.gradle:

    implementation libs.vertx.stack.depchain
    implementation libs.vertx.web.api.service
    implementation libs.vertx.core
    implementation libs.vertx.openapi
    implementation libs.vertx.service.proxy
    implementation libs.vertx.web

    annotationProcessor libs.vertx.web.api.service
    // This one is here because not sure how to get :processor to work in the libs.
    annotationProcessor 'io.vertx:vertx-codegen:4.5.12:processor'

With the version for all of the libs being 4.5.12. I tried including the library that was mentioned in the error message but the message still remained. Am wondering what might be the source of this error and how I could bypass/resolve it.