Issue: SPR-14832

Issue: SPR-15028

Includes consistent use of ResolvableType.resolve() wherever applicable.

Issue: SPR-15011

Built-in support in MethodParameter and DependencyDescriptor supersedes our separate KotlinUtils helper.

Issue: SPR-14951

Issue: SPR-15005

Issue: SPR-14996

* getBeanDefinitionNames defensively returns a copy of the bean definition names array.
* copyConfigurationFrom provides an independent AutowireCandidateResolver instance and copies a ConversionService and dependency comparator configuration as well.
* findAutowireCandidates only considers a self reference fallback for direct dependency declarations, not as a collection element.

Issue: SPR-14897
Issue: SPR-14921
Issue: SPR-14965

Issue: SPR-13188

Issue: SPR-14883

Issue: SPR-14883
(cherry picked from commit b42d731f)

Issue: SPR-10502

Includes consistent quoting of qualified type names in related classes.

Issue: SPR-14831

Issue: SPR-14816

Issue: SPR-14842

Closes gh-1203

See gh-1203

This commit improves NoSuchBeanDefinitionException to expose a full
ResolvableType rather than a raw class if a lookup by type failed. This
allows to know more about the underlying type and is typically useful
when a collection or map is required as the relevant generic type is the
actual bean that wasn't found.

Issue: SPR-14831

Closes gh-1206

String with version 5 the name of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
changed from J2EE to Java EE. However a lot of the documentation still
uses the term J2EE.

This commit includes the following changes:

 * replace J2EE with Java EE where appropriate

This is not a blind search and replace. The following occurrences
remain unchanged:

 * references to old J2EE releases, most notably 1.3 and 1.4.
 * references to "Expert One-On-One J2EE Design and Development"
 * references to "Core J2EE patterns"
 * XML namespaces
 * package names

Issue: SPR-14811
See gh-1206

Issue: SPR-14737

Issue: SPR-14725

Improve RootBeanDefinition to specify an AnnotatedElement that holds
qualifier information. When such element is present, any qualifier that
it defines will be used to find a matching candidate.

Issue: SPR-14725

(cherry picked from commit 54db4968)

Issue: SPR-14661

Issue: SPR-14686

Issue: SPR-8337

DefaultListableBeanFactory does not trigger early candidate creation ahead of primary bean selection

Issue: SPR-14611

Issue: SPR-7549

Issue: SPR-14607

Issue: SPR-14595

Issue: SPR-14580

Issue: SPR-11217

(cherry picked from commit a4a71a89)