Prior to this commit, InstantFormatter was able to properly serialize
an Instant that is far in the future (or in the past), but it could not
properly deserialize it, because in such scenarios an ISO-formatted
Instant starts with a +/- sign.

This commit fixes this issue, while maintaining the previous contract,
and also introduces tests for InstantFormatter.

Closes gh-23895

This commit updates URLs to prefer the https protocol. Redirects are not followed to avoid accidentally expanding intentionally shortened URLs (i.e. if using a URL shortener).

# Fixed URLs

## Fixed Success
These URLs were switched to an https URL with a 2xx status. While the status was successful, your review is still recommended.

* [ ] http://www.apache.org/licenses/ with 1 occurrences migrated to:
  https://www.apache.org/licenses/ ([https](https://www.apache.org/licenses/) result 200).
* [ ] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 with 6515 occurrences migrated to:
  https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ([https](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) result 200).

This commit updates URLs to prefer the https protocol. Redirects are not followed to avoid accidentally expanding intentionally shortened URLs (i.e. if using a URL shortener).

# Fixed URLs

## Fixed Success
These URLs were switched to an https URL with a 2xx status. While the status was successful, your review is still recommended.

* [ ] http://www.apache.org/licenses/ with 1 occurrences migrated to:
  https://www.apache.org/licenses/ ([https](https://www.apache.org/licenses/) result 200).
* [ ] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 with 6625 occurrences migrated to:
  https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ([https](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) result 200).

This commit also fixes broken javadoc links and code references.

Issue: SPR-13188

Issue: SPR-14201

Moved @Uses annotations to org.springframework.lang; fixed Base64Utils to declare Java 8, and fixed PathResource's declaration to refer to Java 7.

Issue: SPR-11604

Animal sniffer provides tools to assist verifying that classes
compiled with a newer JDK are compatible with an older JDK.

This integratesthe latest version of the tool (1.11) that
permits the use of custom annotations. Added @UsesJava7,
@UsesJava8 and @UsesSunHttpServer and annotated the few places
where we rely on a specific environment.

The verification process can be invoked by running the 'sniff'
task.

Issue: SPR-11604

polishing

Issue: SPR-10130

This is largely derived from our existing Joda-Time support, with corresponding classes wherever possible.

Issue: SPR-9641