Fix and improve Javadoc in spring-beans

See gh-28803

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/BeanWrapper.java

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ public interface BeanWrapper extends ConfigurablePropertyAccessor {
 	 * Obtain the property descriptor for a specific property
 	 * of the wrapped object.
 	 * @param propertyName the property to obtain the descriptor for
-	 * (may be a nested path, but no indexed/mapped property)
+	 * (may be a nested path, but not an indexed/mapped property)
 	 * @return the property descriptor for the specified property
 	 * @throws InvalidPropertyException if there is no such property
 	 */

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/MutablePropertyValues.java

@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ public class MutablePropertyValues implements PropertyValues, Serializable {
 	/**
 	 * Register the specified property as "processed" in the sense
 	 * of some processor calling the corresponding setter method
-	 * outside of the PropertyValue(s) mechanism.
+	 * outside the PropertyValue(s) mechanism.
 	 * <p>This will lead to {@code true} being returned from
 	 * a {@link #contains} call for the specified property.
 	 * @param propertyName the name of the property.

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/PropertyEditorRegistrar.java

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ package org.springframework.beans;
  * {@link org.springframework.beans.PropertyEditorRegistry property editor registry}.
  *
  * <p>This is particularly useful when you need to use the same set of
- * property editors in several different situations: write a corresponding
+ * property editors in several situations: write a corresponding
  * registrar and reuse that in each case.
  *
  * @author Juergen Hoeller

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/FactoryBean.java

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
  *
  * <p><b>The container is only responsible for managing the lifecycle of the FactoryBean
  * instance, not the lifecycle of the objects created by the FactoryBean.</b> Therefore,
- * a destroy method on an exposed bean object (such as {@link java.io.Closeable#close()}
+ * a destroy method on an exposed bean object (such as {@link java.io.Closeable#close()})
  * will <i>not</i> be called automatically. Instead, a FactoryBean should implement
  * {@link DisposableBean} and delegate any such close call to the underlying object.
  *
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ public interface FactoryBean<T> {
 	 * been fully initialized. It must not rely on state created during
 	 * initialization; of course, it can still use such state if available.
 	 * <p><b>NOTE:</b> Autowiring will simply ignore FactoryBeans that return
-	 * {@code null} here. Therefore it is highly recommended to implement
+	 * {@code null} here. Therefore, it is highly recommended to implement
 	 * this method properly, using the current state of the FactoryBean.
 	 * @return the type of object that this FactoryBean creates,
 	 * or {@code null} if not known at the time of the call

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/ListableBeanFactory.java

@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ public interface ListableBeanFactory extends BeanFactory {
 
 	/**
 	 * Find an {@link Annotation} of {@code annotationType} on the specified bean,
-	 * traversing its interfaces and super classes if no annotation can be found on
+	 * traversing its interfaces and superclasses if no annotation can be found on
 	 * the given class itself, as well as checking the bean's factory method (if any).
 	 * @param beanName the name of the bean to look for annotations on
 	 * @param annotationType the type of annotation to look for
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ public interface ListableBeanFactory extends BeanFactory {
 
 	/**
 	 * Find an {@link Annotation} of {@code annotationType} on the specified bean,
-	 * traversing its interfaces and super classes if no annotation can be found on
+	 * traversing its interfaces and superclasses if no annotation can be found on
 	 * the given class itself, as well as checking the bean's factory method (if any).
 	 * @param beanName the name of the bean to look for annotations on
 	 * @param annotationType the type of annotation to look for

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/ObjectFactory.java

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
  * (possibly shared or independent) when invoked.
  *
  * <p>This interface is typically used to encapsulate a generic factory which
- * returns a new instance (prototype) of some target object on each invocation.
+ * returns a new instance (prototype) of some target objects on each invocation.
  *
  * <p>This interface is similar to {@link FactoryBean}, but implementations
  * of the latter are normally meant to be defined as SPI instances in a

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/annotation/QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver.java

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ public class QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver extends GenericTypeAwa
 	 * as a <em>qualifier</em>, the bean must 'match' against the annotation as
 	 * well as any attributes it may contain. The bean definition must contain
 	 * the same qualifier or match by meta attributes. A "value" attribute will
-	 * fallback to match against the bean name or an alias if a qualifier or
+	 * fall back to match against the bean name or an alias if a qualifier or
 	 * attribute does not match.
 	 * @see Qualifier
 	 */
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ public class QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver extends GenericTypeAwa
 					if (isQualifier(metaType)) {
 						foundMeta = true;
 						// Only accept fallback match if @Qualifier annotation has a value...
-						// Otherwise it is just a marker for a custom qualifier annotation.
+						// Otherwise, it is just a marker for a custom qualifier annotation.
 						if ((fallbackToMeta && ObjectUtils.isEmpty(AnnotationUtils.getValue(metaAnn))) ||
 								!checkQualifier(bdHolder, metaAnn, typeConverter)) {
 							return false;

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/config/BeanFactoryPostProcessor.java

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
  *
  * <p>A {@code BeanFactoryPostProcessor} may interact with and modify bean
  * definitions, but never bean instances. Doing so may cause premature bean
- * instantiation, violating the container and causing unintended side-effects.
+ * instantiation, violating the container and causing unintended side effects.
  * If bean instance interaction is required, consider implementing
  * {@link BeanPostProcessor} instead.
  *

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/config/ConstructorArgumentValues.java

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public class ConstructorArgumentValues {
 
 	/**
 	 * Copy all given argument values into this object, using separate holder
-	 * instances to keep the values independent from the original object.
+	 * instances to keep the values independent of the original object.
 	 * <p>Note: Identical ValueHolder instances will only be registered once,
 	 * to allow for merging and re-merging of argument value definitions. Distinct
 	 * ValueHolder instances carrying the same content are of course allowed.

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/config/YamlProcessor.java

@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ public abstract class YamlProcessor {
 	 * resources. Each resource is parsed in turn and the documents inside checked against
 	 * the {@link #setDocumentMatchers(DocumentMatcher...) matchers}. If a document
 	 * matches it is passed into the callback, along with its representation as Properties.
-	 * Depending on the {@link #setResolutionMethod(ResolutionMethod)} not all of the
+	 * Depending on the {@link #setResolutionMethod(ResolutionMethod)} not all the
 	 * documents will be parsed.
 	 * @param callback a callback to delegate to once matching documents are found
 	 * @see #createYaml()

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/parsing/BeanComponentDefinition.java

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ public class BeanComponentDefinition extends BeanDefinitionHolder implements Com
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * This implementations expects the other object to be of type BeanComponentDefinition
+	 * This implementation expects the other object to be of type BeanComponentDefinition
 	 * as well, in addition to the superclass's equality requirements.
 	 */
 	@Override

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/parsing/ComponentDefinition.java

@@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanReference;
  * {@link #getBeanReferences}, tools may wish to inspect all {@link BeanDefinition BeanDefinitions} to gather
  * the full set of {@link BeanReference BeanReferences}. Implementations are required to provide
  * all {@link BeanReference BeanReferences} that are required to validate the configuration of the
- * overall logical entity as well as those required to provide full user visualisation of the configuration.
+ * overall logical entity as well as those required to provide full user visualization of the configuration.
  * It is expected that certain {@link BeanReference BeanReferences} will not be important to
  * validation or to the user view of the configuration and as such these may be omitted. A tool may wish to
  * display any additional {@link BeanReference BeanReferences} sourced through the supplied
  * {@link BeanDefinition BeanDefinitions} but this is not considered to be a typical case.
  *
- * <p>Tools can determine the important of contained {@link BeanDefinition BeanDefinitions} by checking the
+ * <p>Tools can determine the importance of contained {@link BeanDefinition BeanDefinitions} by checking the
  * {@link BeanDefinition#getRole role identifier}. The role is essentially a hint to the tool as to how
  * important the configuration provider believes a {@link BeanDefinition} is to the end user. It is expected
  * that tools will <strong>not</strong> display all {@link BeanDefinition BeanDefinitions} for a given

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/support/AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java

@@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory extends AbstractBeanFac
 			try {
 				PropertyDescriptor pd = bw.getPropertyDescriptor(propertyName);
 				// Don't try autowiring by type for type Object: never makes sense,
-				// even if it technically is a unsatisfied, non-simple property.
+				// even if it technically is an unsatisfied, non-simple property.
 				if (Object.class != pd.getPropertyType()) {
 					MethodParameter methodParam = BeanUtils.getWriteMethodParameter(pd);
 					// Do not allow eager init for type matching in case of a prioritized post-processor.

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/support/AbstractBeanDefinition.java

@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractBeanDefinition extends BeanMetadataAttributeAccess
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Specify whether or not the configured initializer method is the default.
+	 * Specify whether the configured initializer method is the default.
 	 * <p>The default value is {@code true} for a locally specified init method
 	 * but switched to {@code false} for a shared setting in a defaults section
 	 * (e.g. {@code bean init-method} versus {@code beans default-init-method}
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractBeanDefinition extends BeanMetadataAttributeAccess
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Specify whether or not the configured destroy method is the default.
+	 * Specify whether the configured destroy method is the default.
 	 * <p>The default value is {@code true} for a locally specified destroy method
 	 * but switched to {@code false} for a shared setting in a defaults section
 	 * (e.g. {@code bean destroy-method} versus {@code beans default-destroy-method}

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/support/AbstractBeanFactory.java

@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractBeanFactory extends FactoryBeanRegistrySupport imp
 		RootBeanDefinition mbd = getMergedLocalBeanDefinition(beanName);
 		BeanDefinitionHolder dbd = mbd.getDecoratedDefinition();
 
-		// Setup the types that we want to match against
+		// Set up the types that we want to match against
 		Class<?> classToMatch = typeToMatch.resolve();
 		if (classToMatch == null) {
 			classToMatch = FactoryBean.class;

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/support/BeanDefinitionBuilder.java

@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ public final class BeanDefinitionBuilder {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Set whether or not this definition is abstract.
+	 * Set whether this definition is abstract.
 	 */
 	public BeanDefinitionBuilder setAbstract(boolean flag) {
 		this.beanDefinition.setAbstract(flag);

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/support/DefaultListableBeanFactory.java

@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ public class DefaultListableBeanFactory extends AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFacto
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Return the dependency comparator for this BeanFactory (may be {@code null}.
+	 * Return the dependency comparator for this BeanFactory (may be {@code null}).
 	 * @since 4.0
 	 */
 	@Nullable

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/support/GenericTypeAwareAutowireCandidateResolver.java

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
 /**
  * Basic {@link AutowireCandidateResolver} that performs a full generic type
  * match with the candidate's type if the dependency is declared as a generic type
- * (e.g. Repository<Customer>).
+ * (e.g. {@code Repository<Customer>}).
  *
  * <p>This is the base class for
  * {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver},

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/AbstractBeanDefinitionParser.java

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractBeanDefinitionParser implements BeanDefinitionPars
 	/**
 	 * Register the supplied {@link BeanDefinitionHolder bean} with the supplied
 	 * {@link BeanDefinitionRegistry registry}.
-	 * <p>Subclasses can override this method to control whether or not the supplied
+	 * <p>Subclasses can override this method to control whether the supplied
 	 * {@link BeanDefinitionHolder bean} is actually even registered, or to
 	 * register even more beans.
 	 * <p>The default implementation registers the supplied {@link BeanDefinitionHolder bean}

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java

@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Parse a custom element (outside of the default namespace).
+	 * Parse a custom element (outside the default namespace).
 	 * @param ele the element to parse
 	 * @return the resulting bean definition
 	 */
@@ -1372,7 +1372,7 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Parse a custom element (outside of the default namespace).
+	 * Parse a custom element (outside the default namespace).
 	 * @param ele the element to parse
 	 * @param containingBd the containing bean definition (if any)
 	 * @return the resulting bean definition

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver.java

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ public class DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver implements NamespaceHandlerResolver
 	 * Create a new {@code DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver} using the
 	 * supplied mapping file location.
 	 * @param classLoader the {@link ClassLoader} instance used to load mapping resources
-	 * may be {@code null}, in which case the thread context ClassLoader will be used)
+	 * may be {@code null}, in which case the thread context ClassLoader will be used
 	 * @param handlerMappingsLocation the mapping file location
 	 */
 	public DefaultNamespaceHandlerResolver(@Nullable ClassLoader classLoader, String handlerMappingsLocation) {

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DelegatingEntityResolver.java

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ public class DelegatingEntityResolver implements EntityResolver {
 	 * <p>Configures the {@link PluggableSchemaResolver} with the supplied
 	 * {@link ClassLoader}.
 	 * @param classLoader the ClassLoader to use for loading
-	 * (can be {@code null}) to use the default ClassLoader)
+	 * (can be {@code null} to use the default ClassLoader)
 	 */
 	public DelegatingEntityResolver(@Nullable ClassLoader classLoader) {
 		this.dtdResolver = new BeansDtdResolver();

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/PluggableSchemaResolver.java

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ public class PluggableSchemaResolver implements EntityResolver {
 	 * Loads the schema URL → schema file location mappings using the default
 	 * mapping file pattern "META-INF/spring.schemas".
 	 * @param classLoader the ClassLoader to use for loading
-	 * (can be {@code null}) to use the default ClassLoader)
+	 * (can be {@code null} to use the default ClassLoader)
 	 * @see PropertiesLoaderUtils#loadAllProperties(String, ClassLoader)
 	 */
 	public PluggableSchemaResolver(@Nullable ClassLoader classLoader) {
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public class PluggableSchemaResolver implements EntityResolver {
 	 * Loads the schema URL → schema file location mappings using the given
 	 * mapping file pattern.
 	 * @param classLoader the ClassLoader to use for loading
-	 * (can be {@code null}) to use the default ClassLoader)
+	 * (can be {@code null} to use the default ClassLoader)
 	 * @param schemaMappingsLocation the location of the file that defines schema mappings
 	 * (must not be empty)
 	 * @see PropertiesLoaderUtils#loadAllProperties(String, ClassLoader)

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/SimpleConstructorNamespaceHandler.java

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
  * the bean that will be considered as a parameter.
  *
  * <b>Note</b>: This implementation supports only named parameters - there is no
- * support for indexes or types. Further more, the names are used as hints by
+ * support for indexes or types. Furthermore, the names are used as hints by
  * the container which, by default, does type introspection.
  *
  * @author Costin Leau

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ public class XmlBeanDefinitionReader extends AbstractBeanDefinitionReader {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Set whether or not the XML parser should be XML namespace aware.
+	 * Set whether the XML parser should be XML namespace aware.
 	 * Default is "false".
 	 * <p>This is typically not needed when schema validation is active.
 	 * However, without validation, this has to be switched to "true"
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ public class XmlBeanDefinitionReader extends AbstractBeanDefinitionReader {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Return whether or not the XML parser should be XML namespace aware.
+	 * Return whether the XML parser should be XML namespace aware.
 	 */
 	public boolean isNamespaceAware() {
 		return this.namespaceAware;

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/propertyeditors/StringArrayPropertyEditor.java

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
  * Custom {@link java.beans.PropertyEditor} for String arrays.
  *
  * <p>Strings must be in CSV format, with a customizable separator.
- * By default values in the result are trimmed of whitespace.
+ * By default, values in the result are trimmed of whitespace.
  *
  * @author Rod Johnson
  * @author Juergen Hoeller
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ public class StringArrayPropertyEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport {
 	 * @param emptyArrayAsNull {@code true} if an empty String array
 	 * is to be transformed into {@code null}
 	 * @param trimValues {@code true} if the values in the parsed arrays
-	 * are to be trimmed of whitespace (default is true)
+	 * are to be trimmed of whitespace (default is {@code true})
 	 */
 	public StringArrayPropertyEditor(String separator, boolean emptyArrayAsNull, boolean trimValues) {
 		this(separator, null, emptyArrayAsNull, trimValues);
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public class StringArrayPropertyEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport {
 	 * @param emptyArrayAsNull {@code true} if an empty String array
 	 * is to be transformed into {@code null}
 	 * @param trimValues {@code true} if the values in the parsed arrays
-	 * are to be trimmed of whitespace (default is true)
+	 * are to be trimmed of whitespace (default is {@code true})
 	 */
 	public StringArrayPropertyEditor(
 			String separator, @Nullable String charsToDelete, boolean emptyArrayAsNull, boolean trimValues) {

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/propertyeditors/URIEditor.java

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ public class URIEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport {
 
 	/**
 	 * Create a URI instance for the given user-specified String value.
-	 * <p>The default implementation encodes the value into a RFC-2396 compliant URI.
+	 * <p>The default implementation encodes the value into an RFC-2396 compliant URI.
 	 * @param value the value to convert into a URI instance
 	 * @return the URI instance
 	 * @throws java.net.URISyntaxException if URI conversion failed

spring-beans/src/test/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/config/MethodInvokingFactoryBeanTests.java

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public class MethodInvokingFactoryBeanTests {
 	@Test
 	public void testParameterValidation() throws Exception {
 
-		// assert that only static OR non static are set, but not both or none
+		// assert that only static OR non-static are set, but not both or none
 		MethodInvokingFactoryBean mcfb = new MethodInvokingFactoryBean();
 		assertThatIllegalArgumentException().isThrownBy(mcfb::afterPropertiesSet);
 

spring-beans/src/testFixtures/java/org/springframework/beans/testfixture/beans/ITestBean.java

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  * Interface used for {@link org.springframework.beans.testfixture.beans.TestBean}.
  *
  * <p>Two methods are the same as on Person, but if this
- * extends person it breaks quite a few tests..
+ * extends person it breaks quite a few tests.
  *
  * @author Rod Johnson
  * @author Juergen Hoeller