Issue: SRP-10868

Issue: SPR-10605

Issue: SPR-10835

# By Antonio Marrero
* pull304:
  Assign lowest priority to `/**` pattern

Update AntPathMatcher Comparator to treat `/**` in the same way as
`null` paths.

Prior to this commit the pattern `/**` would be picked in preference
to patterns with 3 or more PathVariable (e.g. `/matches/{matchId}/
periods/{periodId}/teams/{teamId}/results`).

Issue: SPR-10550

Refine AntPathMatcher.combine rules to allow direct concatenation of
patterns when pattern1 does not contain '*.'. Prior to this commit
direct concatenation was allowed when pattern1 did not contain '.',
this prevented calls of the form:

	pathMatcher.combine("/1.0", "/foo/test")

from working as expected.

This commit also applies some general cleanup to the `combine` method.

Issue: SPR-10554

# By Grzegorz Rożniecki
* SPR-10798:
  Fix malformed code in documentation

Fixed code snippets in "Handling complex types for stored procedure
calls" paragraph.

Issue: SPR-10798

# By clemp6r
* SPR-10850:
  Fix elvis operator mistake in reference docs

In the given example the expression using the Elvis operator will
return "Nikola Tesla" and not "Mike Tesla".

Issue: SPR-10850

@Bean methods are allowed to override existing bean definitions with a role other than ROLE_APPLICATION now (e.g. framework-generated default beans)

Also, DefaultListableBeanFactory logs a warning when overriding an application definition with a framework-generated definition now, which is expected to be an accident.

Issue: SPR-10607

Issue: SPR-10866

Added documentation on the support for gzip encoding using the
DecompressingHttpClient in Apache HttpComponents.

Issue: SPR-7874

Issue: SPR-8804

We're using the same subtle PriorityOrdered/Ordered/non-ordered separation as for regular BeanFactoryPostProcessors and BeanPostProcessors now. Additionally, we're re-detecting BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor bean names after every invocation phase, up until no further ones appear.

Issue: SPR-10630

Issue: SPR-10711

Issue: SPR-10835

This turned into a rather huge affair since it led to the introduction of a new AutowireCandidateResolver implementation in the spring-context module. That ACR impl is now being set through AnnotationConfigUtils; GenericApplicationContext and co do not set a default QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver anymore (which has always been a smell anyway).  At the same time, dependency ordering has moved from AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor to DefaultListableBeanFactory itself through a "dependencyComparator" strategy, applying to constructor dependencies and lazy resolution proxies as well.

Issue: SPR-10353

Restoring consistency with AnnotationConfigApplicationContext.

Issue: SPR-10852

Still used by Spring Security 2.0.x's NamespaceHandler etc.

Restore method signatures on MediaType

Previously the method signatures for includes and isCompatibleWith were
incompatible with Spring 3.2.x since the argument was now MimeType.
This caused NoSuchMethodError to be thrown when a class was compiled
against MediaType from Spring 3.2.x and ran against MediaType
from Spring 4.x.

This commit restores the signatures and implements each method by
invoking the super class method.

Issue: SPR-10860

Added AsyncRestTemplate, the asynchronous counterpart to the
RestTemplate that was introduced in Spring 3. All methods on the
AsyncRestTemplate are similar to those found on the synchronous
RestTemplatem, except that they return Future wrappers instead of
concrete results.

To enable this, this commit introduces the AsyncClientHttpRequest and
AsyncClientHttpRequestFactory, similar to the ClientHttpRequest and
ClientHttpRequestFactory, except that ClientHttpRequest returns a
Future<ClientHttpResponse> for the execute method. Two implementations
of these interfaces are provided, one based on the HttpURLConnection
incombination with a Spring AsyncTaskExecutor and one based on Apache
HttpComponents HttpAsyncClient.

Issue: SPR-8804

Issue: SPR-10840

This reverts commit 620c16f5.

Issue: SPR-10861

MockFilterChain should not be re-used across requests. This is not an
issue unless tests are executed concurrently. This change ensures the
MockFilterChain is re-created for each request in MockMvc.

Issue: SPR-10838

Fix @Condition evaluation to also consider super classes for both
@Configuration classes and regular @Components. This change allows
@Conditional annotations to be inherited and restores the previous
behavior of @Profile.

Issue: SPR-10840