See gh-9066
See gh-4299

Closes gh-9386

Closes gh-6299

Closes gh-9073

Glassfish bundles an old and incomplete version of Glassfish. By
default, this leads to some of Jackson's classes being loaded from
inside the war file and others being loaded from Glassfish itself.
This mixture of versions does not end well and the application fails
to deploy.

This commit adds a Glassfish-specific deployment descriptor to
invert the web app class loader's delegation model. Rather than
preferring classes available from its parent, it will now prefer
those packaged inside the war file.

Closes gh-9391

Closes gh-9387

This dependency breaks Glassfish integration tests and was not strictly
required by #9297.

Previously, BeanCurrentlyInCreationFailureAnalyzer would return
a FailureAnalysis for any BeanCurrentlyInCreationException even if
it could not determine where the cycle begins. This could lead to an
inaccurate diagram of the cycle being output.

This commit updates BeanCurrentlyInCreationFailureAnalyzer so that
it abandons its analysis and returns null if it is unable to determine
where the cycle begins.

Closes gh-8164

This commit adds a new json starter that gathers the core bits to read
and write json with dedicated Java 8 extensions.

The web-related starters have been improved to use the new starter
rather than relying on `jackson-databind` directly.

Closes gh-9297

* pr/9066:
  Polish "Add influxDB java client auto-configuration"
  Add influxDB java client auto-configuration

Closes gh-9066

See gh-9066

See gh-9374

* pr/7946:
  Polish "Add PoolingOptions to CasandraProperties"
  Add PoolingOptions to CasandraProperties

Closes gh-7946

This change allows users to configure some basic pooling
options for cassandra driver via configuration properties.

See gh-7946

This commit ensures that `setLogLevel` on the `LoggingSystem` accepts
a `null` level. A `null` level means any customization sets on that
level should be removed and the default configuration should be used
instead.

Effectively, the level of the parent logger is going to be used when
`setLevel` is called with `null` for a given logger.

Most JMX clients do not accept to pass `null` for an argument so an
empty String is translated to null in that specific case.

Closes gh-8776

Calling launch of PropertiesLauncherTests sets the thread context
class loader to an instance of LaunchedURLClassLoader. To avoid this
class loader being used beyond the scope of the test and launcher
that created it, this commit updates PropertiesLauncherTests to
capture the TCCL before each test and restore it after each test.

Closes gh-9378

* pr/7960:
  Polish "Allow to customize the JdbcTemplate"
  Allow to customize the JdbcTemplate

Closes gh-7960

See gh-7960

This commit makes sure to reuse an existing or auto-configured
`JdbcTemplate` when auto-configuring a `NamedParameterJdbcTemplate`.

This ensures that whatever customizations have been applied on the
`JdbcTemplate` are properly shared.

Closes gh-4945

Upgrade to Elasticsearch 5.4.0 and fix auto-configuration to account for
API changes.

See gh-9374

 - Manage byte-buddy-agent in addition to byte-buddy
 - Remove dependency management from spring-boot-parent now that
   dependency management for Byte Buddy is provided in
   spring-boot-dependencies

Closes gh-9373

Closes gh-9370