Update pom.xml

Author: deep-splunk

pom.xml

@@ -159,12 +159,6 @@
             <artifactId>kafka-connect-protobuf-converter</artifactId>
             <version>7.1.1</version>
         </dependency>
-        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java -->
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
-            <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
-            <version>3.21.7</version>
-        </dependency>
         <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.code.gson/gson -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
@@ -339,4 +333,4 @@
 
         </plugins>
     </build>
-</project>
+</project>