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Remove Unsafe usage in aws-xray module

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component:aws-xray enhancement
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Description

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aws-xray

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

See https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-contrib/pull/2397#pullrequestreview-3392054192:

you should consider whether you wish to use caffeine in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-contrib/blob/077cd6ee15a3c5f5938484c90745f80eac66ce95/aws-xray/build.gradle.kts#L29. Version 3 requires java 11, version 2 uses sun.misc.Unsafe that will stop working in default configuration in jdk 26.

Describe the solution you'd like

Remove Unsafe usage

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