[Vivacity5X]

Summary

This PR addresses [#3600](#3600) by porting the transitive compile-only dependency support to the main branch.

• Configure Gradle Module Metadata generation using gradle-module-metadata-maven-plugin.
• Expose annotation dependencies through the apiElements variant for Gradle consumers.
• Add JPMS requires static directives for annotation modules.
• Add a changelog entry for issue [main] Add transitive compileOnlyApi dependencies #3600.

Validation

• Maven reactor package and install completed successfully using JDK 17.
• Verified generated Gradle Module Metadata for log4j-core, log4j-kit, log4j-plugins, and log4j-plugin-processor.
• Verified the log4j-core module descriptor contains the expected requires static directives.
• git diff --check passed.

Notes

No new automated tests were added in this contribution.

[ramanathan1504]

The generated module.json and module descriptors for log4j-core, log4j-kit and log4j-plugins match #3450 on 2.x.
#4034 asks to add these libraries only to the modules that use them. @ppkarwasz do we port the 2.x list to main as is, or settle #4034 first?