Conversion to and from UUID objects is now supported by the
DefaultConversionService.

Issue: SPR-9765

Issue: SPR-9857

Reverted change for @Bean methods that declare FactoryBean as their return type: The effects of trying to create the FactoryBean to find out about its implementation type are too far-reaching. It's better to recommend declaring a specific return type in the method signature if you want the container to specifically react to your implementation type.

Issue: SPR-9857

Includes a change for factory methods that declare their return type as FactoryBean: When asked for a specific type match (e.g. LoadTimeWeaverAware), we do check early singleton instances as well (reusing the instances that we create for getObjectType checks). This is necessary in order to make @Bean method introspection as capable as XML bean definition introspection, even in case of the @Bean method using a generic FactoryBean declaration for its return type (instead of the FactoryBean impl class).

Issue: SPR-9857

Issue: SPR-9448

Issue: SPR-9448

Includes a change for factory methods that declare their return type as FactoryBean: When asked for a specific type match (e.g. LoadTimeWeaverAware), we do check early singleton instances as well (reusing the instances that we create for getObjectType checks). This is necessary in order to make @Bean method introspection as capable as XML bean definition introspection, even in case of the @Bean method using a generic FactoryBean declaration for its return type (instead of the FactoryBean impl class).

Issue: SPR-9857

Issue: SPR-9867

Issue: SPR-9869

Issue: SPR-9865

Issue: SPR-9630

* SPR-9284:
  Allow MapToMap conversion to work when the target map does not have a default constructor (as long as a new map copy is not required).
  Polish trailing whitespace

default constructor (as long as a new map copy is not required).

Issue: SPR-9284

* SPR-9017:
  SpEL support for methods and properties on class …
  Remove trailing whitespace

Update the ReflectiveMethodResolver and ReflectivePropertyAccessor
to allow methods and properties of java.lang.Class to be resolved
when the target object is a class.

Issue: SPR-9017

# By Phillip Webb
* SPR-9851:
  Prevent memory leaks with @Configuration beans

Refactor ConfigurationClassEnhancer to allow cglib caching of
generated classes.  Prior to this commit each enhanced @Configuration
class would consume permgen space when created.

The CallbackFilter and Callback Types are now defined as static final
members so that they can be shared by all enhancers.  Only the
callbackInstances remain specific to a @Configuration class and
these are not used by cglib as part of the cache key.

Issue: SPR-9851

This change ensures that when the Accept and the Producible media types
are equally specific, we use the one from the Accept header, which may
for example carry a different charset.

Remove use of UriTemplate in MockMvcRequestBuilders.
Rely on UriComponentsBuilder instead.

Decode query params before setting them on MockHttpServletRequest.

Add more options to model result matching for the count of errors.

Ignore white spaces and comments when comparing XML.

Issue: SPR-9797

Issue: SPR-9761
Issue: SPR-9762

* SPR-9744:
  Improve annotation methods in TypeDescriptor
  Polish code and JavaDoc formatting

- Use generic typing for getAnnotation()
- Add hasAnnoation() method
- Update existing code and tests to make use of changes

Issue: SPR-9744

- Remove trailing whitespace
- Apply consistent JavaDoc formatting

Issue: SPR-9797

Issue: SPR-9781
Issue: SPR-9784

Aside from minor polishing, this change sets the "systemProperties" and "systemEnvironment" beans at each factory level as well.

Issue: SPR-9756
Issue: SPR-9764

Issue: SPR-9798
Issue: SPR-9804

* SPR-9285:
  Chain exception cause on create failure

Propogate root cause of exceptions thrown from createCollection
and createMap.

Issue: SPR-9285

Add "MockRest-" prefix to RequestMatchers and ResponseCreators to
make it easy to find classes with static imports with
Ctrl+Shift+T "MockRest" - similar to the "MockMvc"
prefix on the server-side.