This change should be the final piece in the puzzle to let SmartInstantiationAwareBeanPostProcessor's predictBeanType predict a FactoryBean-produced type, effectively as a semantic alternative to its postProcessBeforeInstantiation-related role.

Issue: SPR-10517

Issue: SPR-10559

Issue: SPR-10130

Spring 3.2.2 introduced a change to avoid closing the response stream
in HttpMessageConverters (SPR-10095). However, the InputStream of
resources being written, for example as part of a multi-part request
should be closed. This change ensures that.

Issue: SPR-10460

Adding overloaded constructors for URI specification to UrlResource, as a convenience.

Issue: SPR-10471

This is a minor fix with no actual impact.

Issue: SPR-10504

If type conversion turns an empty request parameter value (i.e. "") to
null, we should treat it as a missing value. By default the
ConversionService doesn't change empty strings and therefore one must
explicitly convert them to null for example by registering a
StringTrimmerEditor with emptyAsNull=true.

Issue: SPR-10402

A recent change in FormTag to prepend the context and servlet paths if
not present, causes issues when used in portlet applications.
This change introduces a servletRelativeAction form tag attribute that
must be used for the context and servlet paths to be prepended.

Issue: SPR-10382

Previously ContentNegotiationManager continued with the next
ContentNegotiationStrategy only if the current one returned an empty
list. Now it also does that if the current ContentNegotiationStrategy
returns "*/*". Since the absence of an Accept header and "*/*" have
the same meaning, this allows a default content type to be used in
either case.

Issue: SPR-10513

@InitBinder and @ModelAttribute methods in @ControllerAdvice classes
are now invoked first, allowing any such methods in the @Controller
class to override them.

Issue: SPR-10419

Issue: SPR-10307

Refactor ConfigurationClassEnhancer so that BeanFactory instances are
not held against CGLIB Callback objects. Enhanced @Configuration classes
now use the BeanFactoryAware interface in order to obtain a BeanFactory.

This change has the additional benefit that a static final field can
now be used to hold all Callback instances.

Issue: SPR-10307

Change ContextHierarchyDirtiesContextTests to obtain beans whilst the
ApplicationContext is still open, rather than trying to obtain them
after the context has been closed.

* SPR-10534:
  Add support for DeferredImportSelector
  Support for @Conditional configuration
  Extend AnnotationMetadata and MethodMetadata

Add DeferredImportSelector interface that can be used to select imports
after all @Configuration beans have been processed.

Introduce new @Conditional annotation that can be used to filter
which @Configuration classes or methods are loaded. @Conditional
can be used directly or as a meta-annotation. Condition implementations
are provided via the 'Condition' interface and are free to filter based
on any criteria available at the time that they run. The
ConditionalContext provides access to the BeanDefinitionRegistry,
Environment and ConfigurableListableBeanFactory along with a
ResourceLoader and ClassLoader.

The existing @Profile annotation has been refactored as a @Conditional
with the added benefit that it can now be used as a method level
annotation.

Update AnnotationMetadata and MethodMetadata to extend from a new
AnnotatedTypeMetadata base interface containing the methods that are
common to both. Also introduce new getAllAnnotationAttributes methods
providing MultiValueMap access to both annotation and meta-annotation
attributes.

Existing classreading and standard implementations have been
refactored to support the new interface.

Add PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer.getAppliedPropertySources() to
allow access to the PropertySources that were actually applied.

Issue: SPR-10545

Allow ClassPathContextResource to be accessed by subclasses of
DefaultResourceLoader.

Issue: SPR-10544

Update ServletContextAwareProcessor to allow subclasses to support late
binding of the ServletConfig and/or ServletContext. Allows for the
post-processor to be registered before the servlet environment has been
initialized.

Issue: SPR-10381

Change FrameworkServlet so that it can also be used as a bean within an
existing ApplicationContext. Primarily added to support use with
embedded servlet containers where Spring bootstraps the servlet
container, rather than the servlet container bootstrapping Spring.

Issue: SPR-10381

 - Remove references to python and .net variants
 - Update prereqs for building from source to JDK 1.8

Issue: SPR-10392

Issue: SPR-10389

Issue: SPR-8108

Issue: SPR-10373

Following the introduction of spring-beans-4.0.xsd and the corresponding removal of the pre-2.0 spring-beans.dtd.

Issue: SPR-10437

Removed spring-beans.dtd (the 1.x variant) and spring-oxm-1.5.xsd (pre-Spring-Framework variant), in order to raise the backwards compatibility limit a little bit at least. We'll keep supporting the 2.0 and 2.5 xsd versions for the time being, as well as spring-beans-2.0.dtd.

Removed the ref 'local' attribute in spring-beans-4.0.xsd since 'local' lost its differentiating role to a regular bean ref back in the 3.1 days when we started allowing for the same bean id to reappear in a different beans section of the same configuration file (with a different profile).

Issue: SPR-10437

Add temporary Assume.canLoadNativeDirFonts() method allowing failing
jasper report tests to be bypassed on OSX.

This should be revisited when JDK 8 is released.

Issue: SPR-10537