The key contract is MvcUrls. An instance is automatically created with
the Spring MVC namespace and the MVC Java config but can also be easily
created in any configuration.

Some example tests can be found in DefaultMvcUrlsTests.

Issue: SPR-10665, SPR-8826

MvcUriComponentsBuilder allows creating URIs that point to Spring MVC
controller methods annotated with @RequestMapping. It builds them by
exposing a mock method invocation API similar to Mockito, records the
method invocations and thus builds up the URI by inspecting the mapping
annotations and the parameters handed into the method invocations.

Introduced a new SPI UriComponentsContributor that should be implemented 
by HandlerMethodArgumentResolvers that actually contribute path segments 
or query parameters to a URI. While the newly introduced 
MvcUriComponentsBuilder looks up those UriComponentsContributor instances 
from the MVC configuration.

The MvcUriComponentsBuilderFactory (name to be discussed - MvcUris maybe?) 
prevents the multiple lookups by keeping the UriComponentsBuilder 
instances in an instance variable. So an instance of the factory could 
be exposed as Spring bean or through a HandlerMethodArgumentResolver to 
be injected into Controller methods.

Issue: SPR-10665, SPR-8826

Ensure that property source locations are processed in the same order
regardless if the 'name' attribute is set or not.

Prior to this commit multiple locations from a `@PropertySource` with
a name were added to a `CompositePropertySource` in such a way that
the first location would take precedence. This has now been reversed
for consistence with unnamed `@PropertySource`s

Issue: SPR-10820

Update `AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster` to support `EventObjects`
with a null source (which can happen if they have been serialized).

Issue: SPR-10945

Update the `CacheKey` class used by `ReflectivePropertyAccessor` to
include if the target object is class. The prevents an incorrect cache
hit from being returned when a property with the same name is read on
both an object and its class. For example:

	#{class.name}
	#{name}

Issue: SPR-10486

Prior to this commit, the uniqueness check for @ContextConfiguration
attributes within a @ContextHierarchy was performed at a single test
class level instead of against the merged configuration for all test
class levels in the test class hierarchy.

This commit addresses this issue by moving the uniqueness check
algorithm from resolveContextHierarchyAttributes() to
buildContextHierarchyMap() within ContextLoaderUtils.

Issue: SPR-10997

Update getValue(EvaluationContext context, Object rootObject,
Class<T> desiredResultType) to propagate the EvaluationContext to
ExpressionUtils.

Issue: SPR-10953

Update TypeConverterDelegate to bypass conversion when the target type
is Object.class. Prior to this commit converting a single element array
to an Object would result in the element being returned, rather than
the array itself.

Issue: SPR-10996

Relax the method search algorithm used by `ReflectivePropertyAccessor`
to include methods of the form `getXY()` for properties of the form
`xy`.

Although the JavaBean specification indicates that a property `xy`
should use the accessors `getxY()` and `setxY()`, in practice many
developers choose to have an uppercase first character. The
`ReflectivePropertyAccessor` will now consider these style methods if
the traditional conventions fail to find a match.

Issue: SPR-10716

Restore pringing the payload first and headers second as it has been in
SI but also handle specifically the case where the body is a byte array
to minimize unnecessary "noise" that causes otherwise for STOMP msgs.

The STOMP UNSUBSCRIBE message does not have a destination header so
there is no obvious simple way to do a mapping and the need for it
is not clear yet.

Prior to this commit, @SubscribeEvent @UnsubscribeEvent and
@MessageMapping annotated message handling methods
could only match a strict message destination.

This commit adds a @PathVariable annotation and
updates the message matching/handling process, since
message handling methods can now match PathMatcher-like
destinations and get path variables injected in parameters.

Issue: SPR-10949

This version fixed bugs and improved performance.
New features: "select multiple attributes" and
"Array operations and slicing improved" (a new example
has been added in tests to reflect that).

See https://github.com/jayway/JsonPath/blob/master/README

Issue: SPR-10990

Restore the ability to create a TypeDescriptor for a collection or
map where the generics may be null.

Issue: SPR-11006

Issue: SPR-10222

Prior to this commit, @ControllerAdvice annotated beans would
assist all known Controllers, by applying @ExceptionHandler,
@InitBinder, and @ModelAttribute.

This commit updates the @ControllerAdvice annotation,
which accepts now base package names, assignableTypes,
annotations and basePackageClasses.

If attributes are set, only Controllers that match those
selectors will be assisted by the annotated class.
This commit does not change the default behavior when
no value is set, i.e. @ControllerAdvice().

Issue: SPR-10222

This change adds abstractions for opening and managing TCP connections
primarily for use with the STOMP broker support. As one immediate
benefit the change makes the  StompBrokerRelayMessageHandler more
easy to test.

This change consolidates TCP-related logic in the StompRelaySession. As
a result the sub-class SystemStompRelaySession now contains only logic
intrinsic to the shared system session.

This change upgrades reactor to 1.0 RC1 and also removes the
reactor-based message channel in favor of the one available from
org.projectreactor:reactor-spring.

Refactor TypeDescriptor to use ResolvableType in order to retain full
generic type information, in the process fixing MultiValueMap support
in MapToMapConverter.

Issue: SPR-9499

Fix 'missing serialVersionUID' warnings, support for void.class types
and refine resolve() algorithm to support narrowed types.

Issue: SPR-10973

Consistent use of tabs and remove trailing whitespace.

Issue: SPR-7123

Unfortunately, the JCache API changed quite a bit since 0.6. We're building against a snapshot of JCache 0.11 now, tracking its way to final after the Public Review Ballot.

Formerly known as the Grails BeanBuilder, now in Spring proper. Based on https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/pull/355 but heavily refactored and restructured.

Issue: SPR-7123

- Support for serialization
- Allow programmatic creation of an array from a given component type
- Allow programmatic creation with given generics
- Extract generics from Class types using Class.getTypeParameters()
- Move TypeVariableResolver to an inner class (and make method private)
- Refine 'resolve()' algorithm

Issue: SPR-10973

In order to help developers avoid surprises from unintended use of
"@Bean Lite Mode" when referencing classes via @ContextConfiguration in
the TestContext framework, this commit duplicates the previous
discussion of "annotated classes" from the Javadoc for
@ContextConfiguration as a tip in the "Context configuration with
annotated classes" section of the Testing chapter in the reference
manual.

Issue: SPR-10971

Issue: SPR-10185

Issue: SPR-10865
Issue: SPR-10970