Since @Bean methods are never used with externally specified constructor argument values but rather just with autowiring, the non-lenient constructor resolution mode is appropriate in case of an overloaded @Bean method, not performing any type difference weight checks. This change includes a refinement of Spring's existing non-lenient constructor resolution (which needs to be explicitly turned on and is therefore not well tested), narrowing the conditions for the ambiguity check (only in case of the same number of arguments and not for overridden methods).
Issue: SPR-10988
Introduced DefaultManagedTaskExecutor, DefaultManagedTaskScheduler and DefaultManagedAwareThreadFactory classes, revised related javadoc, and deprecated unsupported JBossWorkManagerTaskExecutor in favor of JSR-236 setup on WildFly 8.
Issue: SPR-8195
Including ScriptEvaluator implementations for JSR-223, Groovy and BeanShell. BeanShell consistently receives the bean ClassLoader now. Also revised ScriptFactory and its implementations for varargs.
Issue: SPR-11007
Support repeatable @PropertySource annotations in Java 8 and add
@PropertySources container annotation for Java 6/7. Also add an
ignoreResourceNotFound attribute to @PropertySource allowing missing
property resources to be silently ignored.
This commit also introduces some generally useful methods to
AnnotationUtils for working with @Repeatable annotations.
Issue: SPR-8371
Ensure that property source locations are processed in the same order
regardless if the 'name' attribute is set or not.
Prior to this commit multiple locations from a `@PropertySource` with
a name were added to a `CompositePropertySource` in such a way that
the first location would take precedence. This has now been reversed
for consistence with unnamed `@PropertySource`s
Issue: SPR-10820
Update `AbstractApplicationEventMulticaster` to support `EventObjects`
with a null source (which can happen if they have been serialized).
Issue: SPR-10945
A few noteworthy minor changes: LocaleContext.getLocale() may return null in special cases (not by default), which our own accessing classes are able to handle now. If there is a non-null TimeZone user setting, we're exposing it to all collaborating libraries, in particular to JSTL, Velocity and JasperReports. Our JSR-310 and Joda-Time support falls back to checking the general LocaleContext TimeZone now, adapting it to their time zone types, if no more specific setting has been provided. Our DefaultConversionService has TimeZone<->ZoneId converters registered. And finally, we're using a custom parseTimeZoneString method now that doesn't accept the TimeZone.getTimeZone(String) GMT fallback for an invalid time zone id anymore.
Issue: SPR-1528
At the same time, dropped GlassFish 1/2 support from GlassFishLoadTimeWeaver and redesigned it to be as analogous to TomcatLoadTimeWeaver as possible.
Issue: SPR-10788
Update `CacheAspectSupport` to expand any var-arg parameters before
calling `KeyGenerator` implementations. Prior to this commit var-args
would be passed to `KeyGenerator` implementations as a nested array,
often causing the same key to be generated regardless of the arguments.
Issue: SPR-10870
Also, DefaultListableBeanFactory logs a warning when overriding an application definition with a framework-generated definition now, which is expected to be an accident.
Issue: SPR-10607
We're using the same subtle PriorityOrdered/Ordered/non-ordered separation as for regular BeanFactoryPostProcessors and BeanPostProcessors now. Additionally, we're re-detecting BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor bean names after every invocation phase, up until no further ones appear.
Issue: SPR-10630
This turned into a rather huge affair since it led to the introduction of a new AutowireCandidateResolver implementation in the spring-context module. That ACR impl is now being set through AnnotationConfigUtils; GenericApplicationContext and co do not set a default QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver anymore (which has always been a smell anyway). At the same time, dependency ordering has moved from AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor to DefaultListableBeanFactory itself through a "dependencyComparator" strategy, applying to constructor dependencies and lazy resolution proxies as well.
Issue: SPR-10353
Fix @Condition evaluation to also consider super classes for both
@Configuration classes and regular @Components. This change allows
@Conditional annotations to be inherited and restores the previous
behavior of @Profile.
Issue: SPR-10840
Also, StandardReflectionParameterNameDiscoverer calls "Parameter.isNamePresent()" now to return null (and pass on to the next discoverer) if no JDK 8 parameters are available. Note that this requires OpenJDK 8 b100 or higher to compile now.
Issue: SPR-10532
