# By Rob Winch
# Via Rob Winch
* gradle-1116:
Make GRADLE-1116 workaround more generic
# By Rob Winch
* spring-test-mvc-classpath:
Fix spring-test-mvc Eclipse classpath
Previously the workaround for GRADLE-1116 only worked for the
merge-dist.gradle projects
Now the workaround is more generic and fixes errors that have since
been introduced when performing a fresh import into Eclipse.
Prior to this commit the testWithLocateExistingAndExistingServer method
would fail if any preceding test called the ManagementFactory
getPlatformMBeanServer() method. In such situations the platform
server is located instead of the expected freshly created server.
These failures are more likely to happen when compiling with JDK 7
due to the fact that the reflection API no longer returns methods
in a consistent order.
Unfortunately there is no easy way to reset the platform MBean server
so the new code must resort to using reflection to access the private
static ManagementFactory.platformMBeanServer field.
Issue: SPR-9288
Previously reflection was required when interacting with Hibernate 4 in
order to support both Hibernate 3 and Hibernate 4 since there were
non-passive changes in the APIs. Now that the Spring build uses Gradle
it is trivial to support multiple Hibernate versions.
This commit removes the reflection usage in orm.hibernate4.* by
creating a spring-orm-hibernate4 module that uses
gradle/merge-artifacts.gradle to build a single artifact but keep
distinct classpaths.
Issue: SPR-10039
This change upgrade the framework to consume the newly-published
docbook-reference-plugin version 0.2.1 containing a maximum width
for the HTML reference guide.
Prior to this change, the INSTANCE constant one could refer to on
AnnotationAwareOrderComparator actually referred to the constant
declared in the OrderAwareComparator superclass. Thus
AnnotationAwareOrderComparator#INSTANCE did not actually return an
AnnotationAwareOrderComparator but an OrderAwareComparator instead. This
commit introduces a dedicated constant on AnnotationAwareOrderComparator
to avoid this glitch.
Issue: SPR-10038
This change upgrade the framework to consume the newly-published
docbook-reference-plugin version 0.2.0, which includes among other
improvements a revamped CSS approach designed to look as similar
as possible to the way markdown files are rendered by GitHub.
See associated commit [1] at SpringSource's gradle-plugins repo for
further details.
Issue: SPR-10036
[1]: b209c350ed
Restore the custom title page of the reference manual in order to
remove the large list of authors on the first page.
Note: This change will require updating to version 0.1.7 of the
docbook-reference-plugin when it is released.
Issue: SPR-10008
Remove all xsd versions from the reference manual samples in favor of
"versionless" XSDs. For example, spring-beans-3.0.xsd becomes
spring-beans.xsd
Issue: SPR-10010
Prior to this commit many imagedata elements were duplicated in
order to configure PDF sizes. Since HTML generation is configured
to ignore image scaling altogether this was unnecessary duplication.
Issue: SPR-10033
Convert all docbook XML files to well-formed docbook 5 syntax:
- Include xsi:schemaLocation element for tools support
- Convert all id elements to xml:id
- Convert all ulink elements to link
- Simplify <lineannotation> mark-up
- Fix misplaced </section> tags
- Fix <interface> tags to <interfacename>
- Cleanup trailing whitespace and tabs
Issue: SPR-10032
Since web applications declaring a Servlet 2.3 web.xml become really rare now, we're finally deprecating Spring's own ExpressionEvaluationUtils class. As a consequence, we're also setting "springJspExpressionSupport" to false by default, avoiding the potential double EL evaluation problem on pre-Servlet-3.0 containers.
Issue: SPR-5308
Since web applications declaring a Servlet 2.3 web.xml become really rare now, we're finally deprecating Spring's own ExpressionEvaluationUtils class. As a consequence, we're also setting "springJspExpressionSupport" to false by default, avoiding the potential double EL evaluation problem on pre-Servlet-3.0 containers.
Issue: SPR-5308
In the course of this enhancement, the "cache.ehcache" and "cache.jcache" packages moved from spring-context to the spring-context-support module, expecting further transaction-related functionality. Also aligns with the presence of Spring's Quartz support in the spring-context-support module, since Quartz and EHCache are sort of sister projects at Terracotta now.
Issue: SPR-9966
Since web applications declaring a Servlet 2.3 web.xml become really rare now, we're finally deprecating Spring's own ExpressionEvaluationUtils class. As a consequence, we're also setting "springJspExpressionSupport" to false by default, avoiding the potential double EL evaluation problem on pre-Servlet-3.0 containers.
Issue: SPR-5308
Previously, CachedIntrospectionResults had three modes of caching, with the intermediate mode relying on WeakReferences in the JDK PropertyDescriptor implementation. Since the JDK is actually using SoftReferences there these days, losing information in case of a GC run with tough memory constraints, we want to allow for hard references in PropertyDescriptor objects and therefore use a full WeakReference for the CachedIntrospectionResults object itself.
Issue: SPR-10028
This change revisits the implementation of ExtendedBeanInfo, simplifying
the overall approach while also ensuring that ExtendedBeanInfo is fully
isolated from the BeanInfo instance it wraps. This includes any existing
PropertyDescriptors in the wrapped BeanInfo - along with being copied
locally into ExtendedBeanInfo, each property descriptor is now also
wrapped with our own new "simple" PropertyDescriptor variants that
bypass the soft/weak reference management that goes on in both
java.beans.PropertyDescriptor and java.beans.IndexedPropertyDescriptor,
maintaining hard references to methods and bean classes instead. This
ensures that changes we make to property descriptors, e.g. adding write
methods, do not cause subtle conflicts during garbage collection (as was
reported and reproduced in SPR-9702).
Eliminating soft/weak reference management means that we must take extra
care to ensure that we do not cause ClassLoader leaks by maintaining
hard references to methods, and therefore transitively to the
ClassLoader in which the bean class was loaded. The forthcoming
SPR-10028 addresses this aspect.
See the updated ExtendedBeanInfo Javadoc for further details.
Issue: SPR-8079, SPR-8175, SPR-8347, SPR-8432, SPR-8491, SPR-8522,
SPR-8806, SPR-8931, SPR-8937, SPR-8949, SPR-9007, SPR-9059,
SPR-9414, SPR-9453, SPR-9542, SPR-9584, SPR-9677, SPR-9702,
SPR-9723, SPR-9943, SPR-9978, SPR-10028, SPR-10029
The new jdiff task generates a report of API differences between the
current version (i.e. the value of `version` in gradle.properties) and
any older version of the framework, as specified by -DOLD_VERSION at
the command line, or defaulting to `previousVersion` in
gradle.properties.
Running the command requires a separate clone directory pinned to the
desired old version, as specified by -DOLD_VERSION_ROOT at the command
line. This creates challenges from a build automation perspective,
largely because Gradle doesn't (yet) have APIs for working with Git.
This task may be further automated and included in nightly CI runs, but
in the meantime, a number of reports back to 3.1.3.RELEASE have been
generated manually and uploaded to [1], where one can now find the
following entries in the directory listing:
- 3.1.3.RELEASE_to_3.2.0.RC1
- 3.2.0.M1_to_3.2.0.M2
- 3.2.0.M2_to_3.2.0.RC1
- 3.2.0.RC1_to_3.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
Ideally, the final entry there would be kept up-to-date on a daily
basis - again we may revisit doing so in the future. Going forward,
reports will be generated and uploaded manually on an as needed basis
and as part of the release process.
The goal of these reports are as follows:
- to ease the process of ensuring backward compatibility
- to aid in code reviews, particularly when reviewing large pull
requests
- to ease the process of creating migration guides for project
maintainers, i.e. to help us remember what's changed
- to allow ambitious end-users to discover what's been changing at the
API level without without needing to wait for detailed "what's new in
version X" and/or migration guide documentation
See documentation in jdiff.gradle for usage details.
Note that the jdiff-1.1.1 distribution as downloaded from [2] has been
added wholesale to the source tree under gradle/jdiff instead of
uploading JDiff jars to repo.springsource.org as we would normally do.
This is due to some unfortunate limitations in the implementation of the
jdiff ant task that require a phisical JDIFF_HOME directory. Checking in
the jars and various resources represents the simplest and most
pragmatic solution to this problem, though ambitious contributors are
free to do what's necessary to arrive at a more elegant arrangement.
[1]: http://static.springframework.org/spring-framework/docs
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/javadiff/files/latest/download
Issue: SPR-9957
