Split configuration constants into local XConfigUtils classes instead of piling them up in AnnotationConfigUtils
AbstractTypeHierarchyTraversingFilter leniently ignores non-loadable super classes and interfaces

Issue: SPR-12042
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Latest dependency updates (Groovy 2.3.5, Hibernate Validator 4.3.2 & 5.1.2, Jetty 9.2.2)
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