SPR-7627 added Serializer and Deserializer strategies, Converter adapters, and default implementations

added a SybaseAnywhereMaxValueIncrementer since syntax is slightly different than for Sybase ASE (SPR-7623)

SpEL MapAccessor consistently rejects "target.key" style access to Maps if no such key is found (SPR-7614)

added configurable Connection/Statement/ResultSet target types to Jdbc4NativeJdbcExtractor (SPR-7613); added OracleJdbc4NativeJdbcExtractor with pre-configured Oracle JDBC API types

ResourceDatabasePopulator throws descriptive ScriptStatementFailedException with resource details (SPR-7546)

added a nativeJdbcExtractor property for the TableMetaDataProvider and a method to specify the one to use for SImpleJdbcInsert (SPR-7611)

Added missing test configuration file.

Embedded datasources now get their bean ids set as database name to allow multiple databases of the same type in parallel. Refactored tests a little and made BeanDefinitionParser package private to align with the other ones. Adapted changelog accordingly.

DefaultMessageListenerContainer's skips no-message-received commit on Tibco (avoiding a deadlock; SPR-7558)

getTestExecutionListeners() returns actual List which allows for iteration as well as modification (SPR-7595)

DispatcherPortlet's default resource serving explicitly prevents access to WEB-INF and META-INF (SPR-7540)

fixed ApplicationContext event processing for repeated invocations to non-singleton listener beans (SPR-7563)

revised "ClassUtils.isAssignable" semantics to cover primitives vs wrappers in both directions (SPR-7610)

* documented that @Async can't be used in conjunction with lifecycle callbacks such as @PostConstruct
* provide sample for workaround
* added semantic markup for code

The shutdown mechanism for in-memory databases has changed since 10.6. We now have to trigger 'drop' instead of 'shutdown'. Besides that we can skip purging the database manually in newer versions.

AspectJExpressionPointcut uses bean ClassLoader for initializing the AspectJ pointcut parser (SPR-7570)