Issue: SPR-11272

Issue: SPR-11272

Issue: SPR-11259
(cherry picked from commit f0d21510)

Also simplified cache key 'hashCode' implementation, relying on 'equals' to differentiate between same method on different target classes.

Issue: SPR-11267
(cherry picked from commit 82ea9ece)

Issue: SPR-11265
(cherry picked from commit 73d8f069)

Issue: SPR-11251

Issue: SPR-11251

(cherry picked from commit e3017c30)

Issue: SPR-11254
(cherry picked from commit 9a39f39b)

Issue: SPR-11254
(cherry picked from commit ee5b7fda)

Issue: SPR-11246

Issue: SPR-9014

Issue: SPR-11221

This turned out to be a bug in the ASM-based AnnotationMetadata implementation where has/getAnnotatedMethods didn't consider meta-annotations., in contrast to its StandardAnnotationMetadata sibling.

Issue: SPR-10488
(cherry picked from commit 105e176a)

Issue: SPR-11231
(cherry picked from commit 8a3b4c69)

(cherry picked from commit a3a43448)

(cherry picked from commit aa6e6c13)

Issue: SPR-11209
(cherry picked from commit bc5affa7)

Replace references to VMware in license, notices and maven generation
with Pivotal, Inc.

Issue: SPR-11073
(cherry picked from commit b085ec90)

Issue: SPR-11116
(cherry picked from commit c5d79773)

Issue: SPR-10791
(cherry picked from commit 9c157ea0)

Issue: SPR-11002
(cherry picked from commit 8d6d6be3)

Issue: SPR-11091
(cherry picked from commit 161819f1)

Issue: SPR-11107
(cherry picked from commit 9fbb57c3)

Issue: SPR-11076
(cherry picked from commit 3ff3805e)

Issue: SPR-10986
(cherry picked from commit ccafccbe)

Issue: SPR-11097
(cherry picked from commit 2d2226ba)

Issue: SPR-11098
(cherry picked from commit 62ea6279)

Add 'spring-framework-bom' meta-project that contains the other projects
in a dependencyManagement section.

Issue: SPR-11138

This commit makes several methods of TestContext non-final in order to
allow TestContext to be mocked — for example with Mockito.

Note, however, that TestContext has been converted to an interface in
Spring Framework 4.0.

Issue: SPR-11144

This commit fixes a bug introduced in the last commit.

ServletTestExecutionListener (STEL) now tracks whether it has already
populated the RequestContextHolder.

Issue: SPR-11144

Backport-Commit: 800018a8

The previous commit for issue SPR-11144 revealed a bug in
ServletTestExecutionListener (STEL). Specifically, STEL acted on the
fact that the ApplicationContext for a given TestContext was an
instance of WebApplicationContext. This behavior could potentially
break test code from previous releases of the Spring Framework that
relied on a custom setup of the RequestAttributes in the
RequestContextHolder with a custom WebApplicationContext ContextLoader.

This commit addresses this issue by ensuring that STEL only comes into
play if the test class is annotated with @WebAppConfiguration (for
prepareTestInstance() and beforeTestMethod()) or if the TestContext
attribute named RESET_REQUEST_CONTEXT_HOLDER_ATTRIBUTE is set to
Boolean.TRUE (for afterTestMethod()).

Issue: SPR-11144

Backport-Commit: 099b10d2

Specifically, read and write methods are allowed to express property types with superclass/subclass relationships in both directions now.

Issue: SPR-11139
(cherry picked from commit cb624e25)

Optimized use of JDBC 3.0 ParameterMetaData.getParameterType, caching information about drivers which do not support that feature

Issue: SPR-11100
(cherry picked from commit 4c8a7899)