The servlet spec treats any jar in WEB-INF/lib as a web fragment:
"A plain old jar file in the WEB-INF/lib directory with no web-
fragment.xml is also considered a fragment" (section 8.2.1)
This change adds a web-fragment.xml giving the web fragment an
explicit name, "spring_web", and indicating there is no need
to scan for Servlet annotations in the spring-web.jar itself
through metadata-complete=true.
This allows applications that choose to include only specific
web fragments, through the <absolute-ordering> element in web.xml
to also include the "spring_web" fragment, in order to enable scanning
for WebApplicationInitializer types.
This renaming more intuitively expresses the relationship between
subprojects and the JAR artifacts they produce.
Tracking history across these renames is possible, but it requires
use of the --follow flag to `git log`, for example
$ git log spring-aop/src/main/java/org/springframework/aop/Advisor.java
will show history up until the renaming event, where
$ git log --follow spring-aop/src/main/java/org/springframework/aop/Advisor.java
will show history for all changes to the file, before and after the
renaming.
See http://chrisbeams.com/git-diff-across-renamed-directories
