Issue: SPR-10035

This reverts commit c10d63dc.

Removed "target" entry from gitignore, allowing to commit changes to the "org.springframework.aop.target" package

In particular, avoiding synchronized Sets and Maps wherever possible (preferring a ConcurrentHashMap even instead of a synchronized Set) and specifying appropriate ConcurrentHashMap initial capacities (even if we end up choosing 16).

Also initializing the capacity of the AntPathStringMatcher cache to 256 now.

This is not a comprehensive update, only covering the "What's new"
sections for now.

Previously buildSrc/src/main/groovy was a source folder within Eclipse.
This caused build errors due to missing dependencies for Gradle.

This commit removes buildSrc/src/main/groovy from the source folders
within Eclipse to prevent errors from being displayed.

Issue: SPR-9400

This change upgrades the spring-framework build to AspectJ 1.7.1 to
ensure compatibility. We remain backward-compatible to at least AJ
1.6.12 (the previous version), and likely back to 1.6.7.

AJ 1.7 allows for weaving Java 7 bytecode, particularly with regard
to invokedynamic instructions, and furthermore makes improvements to
the aspectj language itself to allow users to take advantage of Java 7-
style language features within aspects. See [1] for details.

[1]: http://eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/released/README-170.html

Issue: SPR-10079

 - Support external Javadoc links using Gradle's javadoc.options.links

 - Fix all other Javadoc warnings, such as typos, references to
   non-existent (or no longer existent) types and members, etc,
   including changes related to the Quartz 2.0 upgrade (SPR-8275) and
   adding the HTTP PATCH method (SPR-7985).

 - Suppress all output for project-level `javadoc` tasks in order to
   hide false-negative warnings about cross-module @see and @link
   references (e.g. spring-core having a @see reference to spring-web).
   Use the `--info` (-i) flag to gradle at any time to see project-level
   javadoc warnings without running the entire `api` task. e.g.
   `gradle :spring-core:javadoc -i`

 - Favor root project level `api` task for detection of legitimate
   Javadoc warnings. There are now zero Javadoc warnings across the
   entirety of spring-framework. Goal: keep it that way.

 - Remove all @link and @see references to types and members that exist
   only in Servlet <= 2.5 and Hibernate <= 4.0, favoring 3.0+ and 4.0+
   respectively. This is necessary because only one version of each of
   these dependencies can be present on the global `api` javadoc task's
   classpath. To that end, the `api` task classpath has now been
   customized to ensure that the Servlet 3 API and Hibernate Core 4 jars
   have precedence.

 - SPR-8896 replaced our dependency on aspectjrt with a dependency on
   aspectjweaver, which is fine from a POM point of view, but causes
   a spurious warning to be emitted from the ant iajc task that it
   "cannot find aspectjrt on the classpath" - even though aspectjweaver
   is perfectly sufficient. In the name of keeping the console quiet, a
   new `rt` configuration has been added, and aspectjrt added as a
   dependency to it. In turn, configurations.rt.asPath is appended to
   the iajc classpath during both compileJava and compileTestJava for
   spring-aspects.

Issue: SPR-10078, SPR-8275, SPR-7985, SPR-8896

Prior to this change, aggregated javadoc has been written to an 'api'
dir and reference docs into a 'reference' dir. This shorter naming is
desirable, but is not compatible with historical naming under 3.1.x as
defined by the Ant+Ivy Spring Build.

For example, URLs are currently as follows:

http://static.springsource.org/spring-framework/docs/3.1.3.RELEASE/javadoc-api
http://static.springsource.org/spring-framework/docs/3.1.x/javadoc-api
http://static.springsource.org/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api

Particularly with regard to the 'current' link, we do not want to
break this url scheme with the shortened 'api' directory naming. Of
course this compatibility can be preserved with symlinks, but this makes
the release process that much more complicated and fragile.

This commit ensures that the naming is 'javadoc-api' and
'spring-framework-reference', consistent with historical convention.
We can always add a symlinking scheme to add the shorter 'api' and
'reference' options after the fact if desired.

Document that the <context:annotation-config> element is usually
not required when using <context:component-scan>.

Issue: SPR-9808

Reorder XML namespace imports for consistency with other docbook
files.

Issue: SPR-9400

DeprecatedBeanWarner detects deprecated FactoryBean classes and always logs user-specified bean type

AbstractCachingViewResolver uses a cache limit of 1024 by default, avoiding overflow for redirect URLs

Issue: SPR-10065

Added "clearCache()" method to CachingMetadataReaderFactory, for clearing the metadata cache once not needed anymore - in particular when the MetadataReaderFactory instance is long-lived. Also added "setMetadataReaderFactory" method to ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider, analogous to ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.

Fixed CGLIB proxy class leaks through further equals/hashCode implementations in Spring AOP pointcuts

Issue: SPR-8008

Issue: SPR-10088

This commit adds documentation to the "New Features and Enhancements in
Spring 3.2" section of the reference manual regarding new testing
features.

Issue: SPR-9941

This commit adds documentation for the following new features in the
Spring TestContext Framework within the Testing chapter of the reference
manual.

 - @WebAppConfiguration and context caching
 - WebDelegatingSmartContextLoader
 - AnnotationConfigWebContextLoader
 - GenericXmlWebContextLoader
 - Loading a WebApplicationContext in integration tests
 - ServletTestExecutionListener
 - Testing request and session scoped beans

Issue: SPR-9864

Reformatted the Testing chapter in preparation for upcoming changes.

Issue: SPR-9860, SPR-9886

Reformatted the Testing chapter in preparation for upcoming changes.

This commit adds Javadoc documentation for the WebApplicationContext
testing support that was recently introduced in the Spring TestContext
Framework.

Issue: SPR-9864

Update tiles.xml files used with tests to reference tiles-config_3_0
instead of tiles-config_2_1 DTD.

Prior to this commit tiles based tests would fail when building
offline or behind a proxy server.

* SPR-10059:
  Make DeferredResult extensible

Previously it was cumbersome to associate data or behavior to a
DeferredResult because it was marked as final and had no extension
points.

Now DeferredResult is non-final which allows subclasses to associate
additional data and behavior to it.

Issue: SPR-10059

Previously the 'merge from' project's configurations exclude rules were
not used in the dynamically created 'merge into' project configurations.
This meant that the pom generation for 'merge into' project did not
exclude the dependencies from the 'merge from' project's configuration
excludes.

Now the exclude rules are copied into the dynamically created
'merge into' project's configurations.

Post process the generated 'spring' eclipse project to include the
buildSrc/src/main/groovy folder.