Issue: SPR-13248

Issue: SPR-13243

Issue: SPR-13236

Issue: SPR-13067

Issue: SPR-13243

Issue: SPR-13242

Issue: SPR-13246

AllEncompassingFormHttpMessageConverter registers MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter and GsonHttpMessageConverter (for consistency with RestTemplate and WebMvcConfigurationSupport)

Issue: SPR-13240

Issue: SPR-13067

Issue: SPR-13239

Issue: SPR-13241

When resolving resources, the PathResourceResolver creates a Resource
instance and checks whether this resource `exists()` and `isReadable()`.
While that last call returns false for folders on the file system, both
calls return true for folders located inside JARs.

If a JAR location is configured as a resource location, then
PathResourceResolver can resolve folders in JARs as valid locations and
candidates for paths resolution.

Prior to this change, the PathResourceResolver would resolve "" as a
valid resource path (here, the "/META-INF/resources/webjars" if
configured, for example) and return a "" path for this resource,
effectively turning all "/" URLs into empty ones "".

This commit fixes the resolveUrlPathInternal implementation by not
allowing empty paths as valid resource paths.

Issue: SPR-13241

* pr/839:
  Fix package references

Closes gh-839

* pr/838:
  Update book reference

Closes gh-838

There is a new version of AspectJ in Action which is now mentioned in the
Further Resources section of the AOP chapter.

Issue: SPR-13034

Refined spring-oxm test execution check for compatibility with the recently announced JDK 9 version scheme

Issue: SPR-13012

This commit adds a new sharedEngine property to ScriptTemplateConfigurer
and ScriptTemplateView in order to support non thread-safe ScriptEngine
implementations like Nashorn.

When this flag is set to false, the engine is retrieved from a
ThreadLocal<ScriptEngine> field instead of a ScriptEngine one.

Also as part of this commit, all the initialization logic has been moved from
ScriptTemplateConfigurer to ScriptTemplateView since the script engine can
now be lazily initialized multiple time in the view when sharedEngine is
set to false.

Issue: SPR-13034

Issue: SPR-13231

Issue: SPR-13232

Merged bean definitions are now cached early and selectively evicted after post-processing and before actual bean creation

Issue: SPR-12236

Issue: SPR-13210

Issue: SPR-13232

Plus latest dependency updates (Hibernate ORM 5.0 RC2, Jackson 2.6 RC4, Reactor 2.0.4, Tomcat 8.0.24, C3P0 0.9.5.1, Rome 1.5.1, FreeMarker 2.3.23, JRuby 1.7.21)

Issue: SPR-13012

* ndebeiss-master:
  Support single quotes nested in double quotes in SQL scripts

Some databases such as Oracle permit double quoted column aliases that
contain case-sensitive characters, single quotes, and other special
characters; however, prior to this commit, SqlScripts interpreted a
single quote nested within double quotes as the start of a string
literal resulting in improper parsing.

This commit addresses this issue by ensuring that double quoted strings
such as column aliases are properly parsed even when containing single
quotes.

Issue: SPR-13218

When using an Apache Http components based infrastructure, a null header
value is handled as the empty string. The exact same infrastructure using
HttpURLConnection generates a header with no colon. This is actually not
proper HTTP and some components fail to read such request.

We now make sure to call HttpURLConnection#addRequestProperty with the
empty String for a null header value.

Issue: SPR-13225

Issue: SPR-13223
Issue: SPR-13224

Issue: SPR-13191

Issue: SPR-13220

Issue: SPR-13212