Issue: SPR-9588

Issue: SPR-12073

This commit configures the SonarRunner plugin so that SonarQube can
be used against the project. A few customizations were applied to
namely exclude the asm and cglib repackaged classes.

Issue: SPR-10766

Issue: SPR-12075

InternalResourceViewResolver's exposure of context beans is now available at UrlBasedViewResolver level

Issue: SPR-8064

JmsMessagingTemplate uses local convertJmsException template method instead of generic MessagingExceptionTranslator interface

This commit also turns MessagingException into a NestedRuntimeException subclass which delivers a root message that has the cause message appended to it. That's a common expectation with the use of Spring exceptions since all of our exception hierarchies have historically been designed that way.

Issue: SPR-12064
Issue: SPR-12038

Issue: SPR-9020

Issue: SPR-9020

Issue: SPR-8959
Issue: SPR-11942

HibernateJpaDialect prepares JDBC Connection by default if on Hibernate EntityManager 4 (with its connection release mode ON_CLOSE)

Analogous to HibernateTransactionManager, there is a "prepareConnection" flag on HibernateJpaDialect which allows for overriding the actual mode of operation. This is easily accessible from HibernateJpaVendorAdapter now which declares HibernateJpaDialect from its getJpaDialect() method.

Issue: SPR-8959
Issue: SPR-11942

Issue: SPR-10459

Issue: SPR-10459

Issue: SPR-12065

Issue: SPR-12070

Issue: SPR-12049

Issue: SPR-12071

Replace references to the old RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1) with references
to the new RFCs 7230 to 7235.

This commit also deprecates:
 - HttpStatus.USE_PROXY
 - HttpStatus.REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE in favor of HttpStatus.PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE
 - HttpStatus.REQUEST_URI_TOO_LONG in favor of HttpStatus.URI_TOO_LONG

Issue: SPR-12067

This commit introduces the ability to specify an inline map in
an expression. The syntax is similar to inline lists and of
the form: "{key:value,key2:value}". The keys can optionally
be quoted. The documentation is also updated with information
on the syntax.

Issue: SPR-9472

* SPR-12050:
  Change GenericConversionService to better handle enum

Prior to this commit, given an enum which implements some interface,
GenericConversionService would select the String -> Enum converter even
if a converter for String -> SomeInterface was registered.  This also
affected converters that were registered for String ->
SomeBaseInterface, when SomeInterface extended SomeBaseInterface.

This change modifies the behavior of the private method
getClassHierarchy() by placing Enum.class as late as possible, pretty
much the same way as Object.class is handled.

Issue: SPR-12050

Issue: SPR-12063

This commit clarifies what should be done in order to use custom cache
annotations with AspectJ.

Issue: SPR-11503

Issue: SPR-11847

Prior to this commit, the schema distribution archive contains
duplicate entries for the more recent XSD as it is reference both with
its version and as the "default" XSD (i.e. without a version).

This commit configures the task to apply a duplicatesStrategy so that
only the first entry remains.

Issue: SPR-12011