SPR-6644 The 'id' value from an 'executor' element in the task namespace is now used as the thread name prefix for the resulting ThreadPoolTaskExecutor instance.

refactored to pass along original ServletContext (for WebLogic and Resin JSP compatibility; SPR-6606)

Resolved SPR-6618. Restrictions were too tight on overloaded bean methods and were preventing it altogether.  Overloading is now allowed, as long as there is no ambiguity at runtime which bean method should be invoked.

STS-723: fixed ViewControllerBeanDefinitionParser to not rely on instance state for handler mapping and handler adapter bean names

use TypeDescriptor.forObject instead of constructor; enforce use of TypeDescriptor.valueOf through making the constructor private

ObjectToObject converter now only matches public methods/constructors; private class method invocations also supported now through a makeAccessible call