Polishing
Groovy-based bean definitions

Formerly known as the Grails BeanBuilder, now in Spring proper. Based on https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/pull/355 but heavily refactored and restructured.

Issue: SPR-7123
Upgraded to JCache 0.11 for Spring Framework 4.0 RC1

Unfortunately, the JCache API changed quite a bit since 0.6. We're building against a snapshot of JCache 0.11 now, tracking its way to final after the Public Review Ballot.
Polish GroovyBeanDefinitionReader formatting

Consistent use of tabs and remove trailing whitespace.

Issue: SPR-7123
Polish ResolvableType & SerializableTypeWrapper

Fix 'missing serialVersionUID' warnings, support for void.class types
and refine resolve() algorithm to support narrowed types.

Issue: SPR-10973
Support for MultiValueMap in MapToMapConverter

Refactor TypeDescriptor to use ResolvableType in order to retain full
generic type information, in the process fixing MultiValueMap support
in MapToMapConverter.

Issue: SPR-9499
Upgrade to reactor 1.0 RC1 and remove MessageChannel

This change upgrades reactor to 1.0 RC1 and also removes the
reactor-based message channel in favor of the one available from
org.projectreactor:reactor-spring.
Fix issue with forwarding messaging to STOMP broker
Refactor STOMP relay session

This change consolidates TCP-related logic in the StompRelaySession. As
a result the sub-class SystemStompRelaySession now contains only logic
intrinsic to the shared system session.
Add TCP abstractions to spring-messaging

This change adds abstractions for opening and managing TCP connections
primarily for use with the STOMP broker support. As one immediate
benefit the change makes the  StompBrokerRelayMessageHandler more
easy to test.
Fix issue in AbstractMessagingTemplate
Add SimpleMessageConverter
Add new features on @ControllerAdvice

Prior to this commit, @ControllerAdvice annotated beans would
assist all known Controllers, by applying @ExceptionHandler,
@InitBinder, and @ModelAttribute.

This commit updates the @ControllerAdvice annotation,
which accepts now base package names, assignableTypes,
annotations and basePackageClasses.

If attributes are set, only Controllers that match those
selectors will be assisted by the annotated class.
This commit does not change the default behavior when
no value is set, i.e. @ControllerAdvice().

Issue: SPR-10222
Polish ControllerAdvice selectors

Issue: SPR-10222
Merge pull request #380 from bclozel/SPR-10222
Allow TypeDescriptor create with null generics

Restore the ability to create a TypeDescriptor for a collection or
map where the generics may be null.

Issue: SPR-11006
Upgrade json-path to 0.9.0 version

This version fixed bugs and improved performance.
New features: "select multiple attributes" and
"Array operations and slicing improved" (a new example
has been added in tests to reflect that).

See https://github.com/jayway/JsonPath/blob/master/README

Issue: SPR-10990
Support @PathVariable in annotated message handling methods

Prior to this commit, @SubscribeEvent @UnsubscribeEvent and
@MessageMapping annotated message handling methods
could only match a strict message destination.

This commit adds a @PathVariable annotation and
updates the message matching/handling process, since
message handling methods can now match PathMatcher-like
destinations and get path variables injected in parameters.

Issue: SPR-10949
Polish AnnotationMethodMessageHandler and annotations
Remove @UnsubscribeEvent

The STOMP UNSUBSCRIBE message does not have a destination header so
there is no obvious simple way to do a mapping and the need for it
is not clear yet.