diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 39b1775..9ce7cc4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -154,6 +154,13 @@
 			<artifactId>swagger-jaxrs2-jakarta</artifactId>
 			<version>2.2.22</version>
 		</dependency>
+		<!-- spotbug tooling -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spotbugs-annotations</artifactId>
+			<version>4.0.0</version>
+			<scope>compile</scope>
+		</dependency>
 		<!--
 		************************************************************ 
 		** TEST dependency                                        **