When obtaining an async result, tests will now await concurrent
processing to complete for the exact amount of time equal to the
actual async timeout value.

Issue: SPR-9875

Issue: SPR-7905

Before this change View implementations set the response content type
to the fixed value they were configured with.

This change makes it possible to configure a View implementation with
a more general media type, e.g. "application/*+xml", and then set the
response type to the more specific requested media type, e.g.
"application/vnd.example-v1+xml".

Issue: SPR-9807.

* tmeighen-SPR-7905:
  Support wildcard style media types in JSON converters

Add "application/*+json" to supported media types for both Jackson
message converters.

Issue: SPR-7905

Some servlet containers (iPlanet) parse the Accept header and return
multiple values from request.getHeader("Accept"). The HttpHeaders
getAccept method has been updated to accommodate that hopefully
without causing any other issues.

The extra functionality is in effect only if we find only one
MediaType and there is more than one value for the 'Accept' header.

Issue: SPR-9655

Issue: SPR-9898

Previously UriComponentsBuilder used a regular expression for parsing
query name-value pairs where both name and value were expected to not
contain neither '&', not '='. The idea is that the presence of reserved
characters makes it impossible to guess correctly how to parse the
query string (e.g. a=b&c).

This change relaxes the constraint on query param values, allowing them
to contain '='. In effect '&' is the ultimate separator of name-value
pairs, and any '=' in values is ignored. For example "q=1USD=?EUR" is
interpreted as "q equals '1USD=?EUR'".

Issue: SPR-9832

Issue: SPR-9822

Prior to this commit, utility methods in JdbcTestUtils interpreted SQL
comments as separate statements, resulting in an exception when such a
script is executed.

This commit addresses this issue by introducing a
readScript(lineNumberReader, String) method that accepts a comment
prefix. Comment lines are therefore no longer returned in the parsed
script. Furthermore, the existing readScript(lineNumberReader) method
now delegates to this new readScript() method, supplying "--" as the
default comment prefix.

Issue: SPR-9593

Renamed WebTestExecutionListener to ServletTestExecutionListener.

ModelAndViewAssert now uses assertion methods in the newly
introduced AssertionErrors class.

Add unit test for DefaultMessageCodesResolver

SpringRunnerContextCacheTests suffers from JDK7-related non-determinism
in values returned from Class#getDeclaredMethods(), which in turn
affects JUnit and its execution of @test methods.

This commit addresses this issue by introducing an
OrderedMethodsSpringJUnit4ClassRunner that sorts the test methods
alphabetically, which is actually required for
SpringRunnerContextCacheTests to work properly.

Issue: SPR-9789

This commit introduces RequestAndSessionScopedBeansWacTests which
verifies support for request and session scoped beans in the Spring
TestContext Framework (TCF).

This support was actually introduced as an intentional side effect of
the work performed for SPR-5243 through the addition of the new 
WebTestExecutionListener.

Issue: SPR-4588

Issue: SPR-9864

Conversion to and from UUID objects is now supported by the
DefaultConversionService.

Issue: SPR-9765

Issue: SPR-9857

Reverted change for @Bean methods that declare FactoryBean as their return type: The effects of trying to create the FactoryBean to find out about its implementation type are too far-reaching. It's better to recommend declaring a specific return type in the method signature if you want the container to specifically react to your implementation type.

Issue: SPR-9857

Includes a change for factory methods that declare their return type as FactoryBean: When asked for a specific type match (e.g. LoadTimeWeaverAware), we do check early singleton instances as well (reusing the instances that we create for getObjectType checks). This is necessary in order to make @Bean method introspection as capable as XML bean definition introspection, even in case of the @Bean method using a generic FactoryBean declaration for its return type (instead of the FactoryBean impl class).

Issue: SPR-9857

Issue: SPR-9448

Issue: SPR-9448

Includes a change for factory methods that declare their return type as FactoryBean: When asked for a specific type match (e.g. LoadTimeWeaverAware), we do check early singleton instances as well (reusing the instances that we create for getObjectType checks). This is necessary in order to make @Bean method introspection as capable as XML bean definition introspection, even in case of the @Bean method using a generic FactoryBean declaration for its return type (instead of the FactoryBean impl class).

Issue: SPR-9857

Issue: SPR-9867

Issue: SPR-9869

Issue: SPR-9865

Issue: SPR-9630

* SPR-9284:
  Allow MapToMap conversion to work when the target map does not have a default constructor (as long as a new map copy is not required).
  Polish trailing whitespace

default constructor (as long as a new map copy is not required).

Issue: SPR-9284