Prior to this change, by-type lookups using DLBF#getBeanNamesForType
required traversal of all bean definitions within the bean factory
in order to inspect their bean class for assignability to the target
type. These operations are comparatively expensive and when there are a
large number of beans registered within the container coupled with a
large number of by-type lookups at runtime, the performance impact can
be severe. The test introduced here demonstrates such a scenario clearly.

This performance problem is likely to manifest in large Spring-based
applications using non-singleton beans, particularly request-scoped
beans that may be created and wired many thousands of times per second.

This commit introduces a simple ConcurrentHashMap-based caching strategy
for by-type lookups; container-wide assignability checks happen only
once on the first by-type lookup and are afterwards cached by type
with the values in the map being an array of all bean names assignable
to that type. This means that at runtime when creating and autowiring
non-singleton beans, the cost of by-type lookups is reduced to that of
ConcurrentHashMap#get.

Issue: SPR-6870

Issue: SPR-6870

Previously (since Spring 3.1.1) RecursiveAnnotationAttributesVisitor
logs at level WARN when ASM parsing encounters an annotation or an (enum
used within an annotation) that cannot be classloaded. This is not
necessarily indicative of an error, e.g. JSR-305 annotations such as
@Nonnull may be used only for static analysis purposes, but because
these annotations have runtime retention, they remain present in the
bytecode. Per section 9.6.1.2 of the JLS, "An annotation that is present
in the binary may or may not be available at run-time via the reflective
libraries of the Java platform."

This commit lowers the log level of these messages from warn to debug,
but leaves at warn level other messages dealing with the ability
reflectively read enum values from within annotations.

Issue: SPR-9233

The following syntax is now supported

  <beans profile="p1,!p2">

  @Profile("p1", "!p2")

indicating that the <beans> element or annotated component should
be processed only if profile 'p1' is active or profile 'p2' is not
active.

Issue: SPR-8728

* SPR-9439:
  Introduce ConfigurableWebEnvironment
  Introduce ConfigurableEnvironment#merge
  Polish

Changes introduced in Spring 3.1 for Environment support inadvertently
established a cyclic dependency between the
org.springframework.web.context and
org.springframework.web.context.support packages, specifically through
web.context.ContextLoader's invocation of
web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils#initServletPropertySources.

This commit introduces ConfigurableWebEnvironment to break this cyclic
dependency. All web.context.ConfigurableWebApplicationContext types now
return web.context.ConfigurableWebEnvironment from their #getEnvironment
methods; web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment now implements
ConfigurableWebEnvironment and makes the call to
web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils#initServletPropertySources
within its implementation of #initPropertySources. This means that
web.context.ContextLoader now invokes
web.context.ConfigurableWebEnvironment#initPropertySources instead of
web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils#initServletPropertySources
and thus the cycle is broken.

Issue: SPR-9439

Prior to this change, AbstractApplicationContext#setParent replaced the
child context's Environment with the parent's Environment if available.
This has the negative effect of potentially changing the type of the
child context's Environment, and in any case causes property sources
added directly against the child environment to be ignored. This
situation could easily occur if a WebApplicationContext child had a
non-web ApplicationContext set as its parent. In this case the parent
Environment type would (likely) be StandardEnvironment, while the child
Environment type would (likely) be StandardServletEnvironment. By
directly inheriting the parent environment, critical property sources
such as ServletContextPropertySource are lost entirely.

This commit introduces the concept of merging an environment through
the new ConfigurableEnvironment#merge method. Instead of replacing the
child's environment with the parent's,
AbstractApplicationContext#setParent now merges property sources as
well as active and default profile names from the parent into the
child. In this way, distinct environment objects are maintained with
specific types and property sources preserved. See #merge Javadoc for
additional details.

Issue: SPR-9444, SPR-9439

Issue: SPR-9439

@EnableSpringConfigured and its @Import'ed
SpringConfiguredConfiguration @Configuration class inadvertently
established a package cycle between beans.factory.aspectj and
context.annotation due to SpringConfiguredConfiguration's
dependency on annotations such as @Configuration, @Bean and @Role.

This commit fixes this architecture bug by moving
@EnableSpringConfigured and SpringConfiguredConfiguration from the
beans.factory.aspectj package to the context.annotation package where
they belong.

This change is assumed to be very low impact as @EnableSpringConfigured
was introduced in 3.1.0 and relocation is happening as quickly as
possible in 3.1.2. @EnableSpringConfigured is assumed to be infrequently
used at this point, and for those that are the migration path
is straightforward. When upgrading from Spring 3.1.0 or 3.1.1, update
import statements in any affected @Configuration classes to reflect the
new packaging.

Issue: SPR-9441

Commit 096693c4 refactored and
deprecated TransactionAspectUtils, moving its #qualifiedBeanOfType
and related methods into BeanFactoryUtils. This created a package cycle
between beans.factory and beans.factory.annotation due to use of the
beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier annotation in these methods.

This commit breaks the package cycle by introducing
beans.factory.annotation.BeanFactoryAnnotationUtils and moving these
@Qualifier-related methods to it. It is intentionally similar in name
and style to the familiar BeanFactoryUtils class for purposes of
discoverability.

There are no backward-compatibilty concerns associated with this change
as the cycle was introduced, caught and now fixed before a release.

Issue: SPR-6847

As of Spring 3.1 URI variables can be used for data binding purposes in
addition to request parameters (including query string and form params)

In some cases URI variables and request params can overlap (e.g. form
contains a child entity with an entityId as hidden form input while the
URI contains the entityId of the parent entity) and that can lead to
surprises if the application already exists.

This change ensures that request parameters are used first and URI
vars are added only if they don't overlap. Ideally however an
application should not use the same uri variable name as the name of
a request parameter where they don't refer to the same value.

Issue: SPR-9349

* SPR-7022:
  Support initial delay attribute for scheduled tasks
  Polish scheduled task execution infrastructure

java.util.concurrent's ScheduledExecutorService and its #schedule*
methods allow for an 'initialDelay' parameter in milliseconds.
Similarly, Spring's TaskExecutor abstraction allows for a concrete
'startTime' expressed as a Date. However, Spring's <task:scheduled> XML
element and @Scheduled annotation have, to date, not allowed for an
initial delay parameter that can be propagated down to the underlying
TaskScheduler/ScheduledExecutorService.

This commit introduces initial-delay and #initialDelay attributes to
task:scheduled and @Scheduled respectively, both indicating the number
of milliseconds to wait before the first invocation of the method in
question. Specifying a delay in this fashion is only valid in
conjunction with fixed-rate and fixed-delay tasks (i.e. not with cron
or trigger tasks).

The principal changes required to support these new attributes lie in
ScheduledTaskRegistrar, which previously supported registration of
tasks in the form of a Runnable and a Long parameter indicating (in the
case of fixed-rate and fixed-delay tasks), the interval with which the
task should be executed. In order to accommodate a third (and optional)
'initialDelay' parameter, the IntervalTask class has been added as a
holder for the Runnable to be executed, the interval in which to run
it, and the optional initial delay. For symmetry, a TriggerTask and
CronTask have also been added, the latter subclassing the former. And a
'Task' class has been added as a common ancestor for all the above.

One oddity of the implementation is in the naming of the new
setters in ScheduledTaskRegistrar. Prior to this commit, the setters
were named #setFixedDelayTasks, #setFixedRateTasks, etc, each accepting
a Map<Runnable, long>. In adding new setters for each task type, each
accepting a List<IntervalTask>, List<CronTask> etc, naturally the
approach would be to use method overloading and to introduce methods
of the same name but with differing parameter types. Unfortunately
however, Spring does not support injection against overloaded methods
(due to fundamental limitations of the underlying JDK Introspector).
This is not a problem when working with the ScheduledTaskRegistrar
directly, e.g. from within a @Configuration class that implements
SchedulingConfigurer, but is a problem from the point of view of the
ScheduledTasksBeanDefinitionParser which parses the <task:scheduled>
element - here the ScheduledTaskRegistrar is treated as a Spring bean
and is thus subject to these limitations. The solution to this problem
was simply to avoid overloading altogether, thus the naming of the new
methods ending in "List", e.g. #setFixedDelayTasksList, etc. These
methods exist primarily for use by the BeanDefinitionParser and are
not really intended for use by application developers. The Javadoc for
each of the new methods makes note of this.

Issue: SPR-7022

In anticipation of substantive changes required to implement "initial
delay" support in the <task:scheduled> element and @Scheduled
annotation, the following updates have been made to the components and
infrastructure supporting scheduled task execution:

 - Fix code style violations
 - Fix compiler warnings
 - Add Javadoc where missing, update to use {@code} tags, etc.
 - Organize imports to follow conventions

* SPR-9300:
  Add convenient WebAppInitializer base classes

This commit introduces three abstract WebApplicationInitializers, to be
used in the typical setup of a Spring-based web application.

 - AbstractContextLoaderInitializer provides an abstract base class for
   registering a ContextLoaderListener.

 - AbstractDispatcherServletInitializer provides an abstract base class
   for registering a DispatcherServlet, with an optional root context.

 - AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer provides an
   abstract base class for registering a DispatcherServlet and optional
   ContextLoaderListener based on annotated (e.g. @Configuration)
   classes.

Issue: SPR-9300

Prove that Async#value is respected even when using @Async as a meta
annotation.

Issue: SPR-6847

* SPR-6847:
  Support executor qualification with @Async#value
  Polish async method execution infrastructure
  Refactor and deprecate TransactionAspectUtils

Prior to this change, Spring's @Async annotation support was tied to a
single AsyncTaskExecutor bean, meaning that all methods marked with
@Async were forced to use the same executor. This is an undesirable
limitation, given that certain methods may have different priorities,
etc. This leads to the need to (optionally) qualify which executor
should handle each method.

This is similar to the way that Spring's @Transactional annotation was
originally tied to a single PlatformTransactionManager, but in Spring
3.0 was enhanced to allow for a qualifier via the #value attribute, e.g.

  @Transactional("ptm1")
  public void m() { ... }

where "ptm1" is either the name of a PlatformTransactionManager bean or
a qualifier value associated with a PlatformTransactionManager bean,
e.g. via the <qualifier> element in XML or the @Qualifier annotation.

This commit introduces the same approach to @Async and its relationship
to underlying executor beans. As always, the following syntax remains
supported

  @Async
  public void m() { ... }

indicating that calls to #m will be delegated to the "default" executor,
i.e. the executor provided to

  <task:annotation-driven executor="..."/>

or the executor specified when authoring a @Configuration class that
implements AsyncConfigurer and its #getAsyncExecutor method.

However, it now also possible to qualify which executor should be used
on a method-by-method basis, e.g.

  @Async("e1")
  public void m() { ... }

indicating that calls to #m will be delegated to the executor bean
named or otherwise qualified as "e1". Unlike the default executor
which is specified up front at configuration time as described above,
the "e1" executor bean is looked up within the container on the first
execution of #m and then cached in association with that method for the
lifetime of the container.

Class-level use of Async#value behaves as expected, indicating that all
methods within the annotated class should be executed with the named
executor. In the case of both method- and class-level annotations, any
method-level #value overrides any class level #value.

This commit introduces the following major changes:

 - Add @Async#value attribute for executor qualification

 - Introduce AsyncExecutionAspectSupport as a common base class for
   both MethodInterceptor- and AspectJ-based async aspects. This base
   class provides common structure for specifying the default executor
   (#setExecutor) as well as logic for determining (and caching) which
   executor should execute a given method (#determineAsyncExecutor) and
   an abstract method to allow subclasses to provide specific strategies
   for executor qualification (#getExecutorQualifier).

 - Introduce AnnotationAsyncExecutionInterceptor as a specialization of
   the existing AsyncExecutionInterceptor to allow for introspection of
   the @Async annotation and its #value attribute for a given method.
   Note that this new subclass was necessary for packaging reasons -
   the original AsyncExecutionInterceptor lives in
   org.springframework.aop and therefore does not have visibility to
   the @Async annotation in org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.
   This new subclass replaces usage of AsyncExecutionInterceptor
   throughout the framework, though the latter remains usable and
   undeprecated for compatibility with any existing third-party
   extensions.

 - Add documentation to spring-task-3.2.xsd and reference manual
   explaining @Async executor qualification

 - Add tests covering all new functionality

Note that the public API of all affected components remains backward-
compatible.

Issue: SPR-6847

In anticipation of substantive changes required to implement @Async
executor qualification, the following updates have been made to the
components and infrastructure supporting @Async functionality:

 - Fix trailing whitespace and indentation errors
 - Fix generics warnings
 - Add Javadoc where missing, update to use {@code} tags, etc.
 - Avoid NPE in AopUtils#canApply
 - Organize imports to follow conventions
 - Remove System.out.println statements from tests
 - Correct various punctuation and grammar problems

TransactionAspectUtils contains a number of methods useful in
retrieving a bean by type+qualifier. These methods are functionally
general-purpose save for the hard coding of PlatformTransactionManager
class literals throughout.

This commit generifies these methods and moves them into
BeanFactoryUtils primarily in anticipation of their use by async method
execution interceptors and aspects when performing lookups for qualified
executor beans e.g. via @Async("qualifier").

The public API of TransactionAspectUtils remains backward compatible;
all methods within have been deprecated, and all calls to those methods
throughout the framework refactored to use the new BeanFactoryUtils
variants instead.

The reference manual previously did not mention the applicability of
JSR-250 lifecycle annotations within the TestContext framework. The
lacking documentation here has lead to misunderstandings of the support
provided for @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy in test classes.

The testing chapter of the reference manual has therefore been updated
to explicitly define the limited support for these annotations.

Also introduced Jsr250LifecycleTests for empirical verification of the 
expected behavior.

Issue: SPR-4868

There is usually not need to put annotations on a WebDataBinder
argument in an `@InitBinder` method. However, the presence of any
annotation prevented the successful resolution of the argument.
This fix addresses the issue.

Issue: SPR-8946

Updated the "@Bean Lite Mode" section in order to properly document 
scoping and lifecycle semantics.

Also fleshed out the discussion of the non-applicability of 'inter-bean 
references' in lite mode.

Issue: SPR-9425

Introduced AtBeanLiteModeScopeTests integration tests to verify proper 
scoping of beans created in 'lite' mode.

Updated comments in TACCWithoutACTests to better reflect the runtime 
behavior for 'lite' @Bean methods.

Issue: SPR-9401

Revised the content in the @ContextConfiguration annotation section.

Issue: SPR-9401

* SPR-9249:
  Add value-type attrib to beans->map->entry element

Previously, the <value> subelement of a map <entry> allowed one to
specify the type of a specific map entry value. This patch allows a
value-type attribute as well, such that instead of the following
syntax

    <entry key="x-message-ttl">
        <value type="java.lang.Long">100</value>
    </entry>
    <entry key="x-ha-policy" value="all" />

one can now use the more concise form

    <entry key="x-message-ttl" value="100" value-type="java.lang.Long"/>
    <entry key="x-ha-policy" value="all"/>

The new value-type attribute may be used at the <map> level as well,
indicating that all elements are of the same type.

Appropriate tests have been added exercising value-type at the <map> and
<entry> levels.

Issue: SPR-9249

Commit 180c5b2e introduced 3.2 versions
of all spring-* schemas; this commit updates spring.schemas mapping
files to include these new versions.

Updated the testing chapter of the reference manual to refer to 
'annotated classes' instead of 'configuration classes' where 
appropriate.

Also revised the content and examples in the @ContextConfiguration 
annotation section, mentioned Gradle, and reformatted the entire text.

Issue: SPR-9401

Several test methods in RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessorTests
are currently annotated with @test(expected=…) and additionally contain:

    fail("Expected exception");

This combination is superfluous, and the unnecessary fail() invocations
have therefore been removed.

If true and there is no body => HttpMessageNotReadableException
If false and there is no body, the argument resolves to null.

Issue: SPR-9239

See the commit comments for:
https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-framework/commit/57307a0b2e5bce8f70d5deddf8df11d034dc8c5a

This commit also applies the change to pre-3.1 `@mvc` suppor classes.

Issue: SPR-6951

When URL decoding is turned off in AbstractHandlerMapping, the
extracted path variables are also not encoded. Turning off URL decoding
may be necessary for request mapping to work correctly when the path
may contain the (encoded) special character '/'. At the same time there
is no good reason not to leave path variables encoded. This change
ensures path variables are encoded when URL decoding is turned off.

Issue: SPR-9098

Updated all Javadoc in the Spring TestContext Framework (TCF) to explain
and refer to 'annotated classes' instead of 'configuration classes'.

Specifically, @ContextConfiguration now explicitly defines what is meant
by 'annotated classes', and various other classes now refer to this
definition. Otherwise, the term 'configuration class' has simply been
replaced with 'annotated class'.

Also deleted cross references to deprecated JUnit 3.8 classes and
formatted Javadoc in general for greater readability.

Issue: SPR-9401

Reordered inline comments so that they now apply to current
state of the code.

Added logger entry in testlog4j.properties to avoid console
warning.

Issue: SPR-9417

* SPR-5369:
  Fix circular placeholder prevention

A set of resolved placeholder references is used for circular
placeholder prevention. For complex property definitions this mechanism
would put property values with unresolved inner placeholder references
in the set, but would try to remove property values with placeholders
resolved, leaving the set in an invalid state and the mechanism broken.

This fix makes sure that the value that is put in the set is same one
that is removed from it, and by doing so avoids false positives in
reporting circular placeholders.

Issue: SPR-5369

* warnings:
  Fix compiler warnings

This patch fixes several compiler warnings that do not point to code
problems. Two kinds of warnings are fixed. First in a lot of cases
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") is used although there are no unchecked
casts happening. This seems to be a leftover from when the code base
was on Java 1.4, now that the code base was moved to Java 1.5 these are
no longer necessary. Secondly there some places where the raw types of
List and Class are used where there wildcard types (List<?> and
Class<?>) would work just as well without causing any raw type warnings.

These changes are beneficial particularly when working in Eclipse or
other IDEs because it reduces 'noise', helping to isolate actual
potential problems in the code.

The following changes have been made:

 - remove @SuppressWarnings where no longer needed

 - use wildcard types instead of raw types where possible