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

Issue: SPR-10945
(cherry picked from commit b0ff834e)

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
(cherry picked from commit e3d3d8cd)

This change avoid use of AntPathMatcher to extract URI template
variables when the lookup path is used as the best matching pattern.

Issue: SPR-10803

Also using ClassUtils.forName in AutowireUtils now in order to accept all common class name formats.

Issue: SPR-11034
(cherry picked from commit 8c1767e2)

XML-defined arguments values are initially turned into TypedStringValue wrappers. If we encounter an unresolved argument, we need to unwrap such a TypedStringValue and then try to treat its content as a class name.

Issue: SPR-11034

Optimized getTypeForFactoryMethod's implementation for non-generic factory methods, and reduced calls to getResolvedFactoryMethod in order to avoid repeated synchronization. Derived from work around SPR-11034.

Issue: SPR-10995

Issue: SPR-11019
(cherry picked from commit 109faace)

Issue: SPR-11027
(cherry picked from commit 4675bc4e)

Issue: SPR-11032
(cherry picked from commit 8bd48044)

Issue: SPR-11031
(cherry picked from commit 4aab3153)

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-11011
Backport-Commit: 7658d856

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

Issue: SPR-10953
(cherry picked from 686cd79b)

We're consistently resolving class names now, and the entire algorithm moved from GenericTypeResolver to the internal AutowireUtils helper in the bean factory package.

Issue: SPR-10411
(cherry picked from commit 8b1927f3)

Issue: SPR-10185
(cherry picked from commit 41f041e6)

Issue: SPR-10974
(cherry picked from commit 7a9d5837)

Exclude self @Component when parsing @ComponentScan annotations.

Issue: SPR-10531
(cherry picked from d91ffb)

(cherry picked from commit 52cca48f)

Issue: SPR-10950

Fix ASM AnnotationAttributesReadingVisitor to correctly deal with
subclasses enums.

Issue: SPR-10914
(cherry picked from 8abe9497)

Silently swallow IllegalStateException on commit if the JMS transaction is based on a JDBC transaction

This fine-tuned change restores the original Spring 3.0 behavior for Oracle AQ, and also allows for other ConnectionFactory types to comply with the "getDataSource()" pattern.

Issue: SPR-10829
(cherry picked from commit 11d20e33)

Issue: SPR-10902

S0 doesn't seem to be universally used for SQL grammar problems: see MS SQL Server's RAISERROR. This was reported years back; not sure why the fix didn't actually appear in the codebase back then.

Issue: SPR-10902
(cherry picked from commit d9b62038)

Issue: SPR-10931
(cherry picked from commit 7bc3e3b3)

Update CallMetaDataContext to use the metaDataProvider
createDefaultOutParameter method when creating a SqlOutParameter as
a result of a SQL function call.

This change allows Spring to support Oracle cursor types when returned
from functions.

Issue: SPR-10606
(cherry picked from c16b21)

Fix ContentNeogitatingViewResolver typo in MVC reference documentation.

Issue: SPR-10927
(cherry picked from 371d25)

Replace "Problem locating method {0} cannot on type {1}" with
"Problem locating method {0} on type {1}".

Issue: SPR-10928
(cherry picked from 824ac5)

Conflicts:
	spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/SpelMessage.java

Issue: SPR-10904
(cherry picked from commit a3df311b)

Issue: SPR-10896
(cherry picked from commit e213561d)

Issue: SPR-9495
(cherry picked from commit baa698ed)

Issue: SPR-9495
(cherry picked from commit b7ff26aa)

Issue: SPR-10452
(cherry picked from commit 5e6044c4)

(cherry picked from commit b25876fd)