To slightly improve performance, this commit switches to
StringBuilder.append(char) instead of StringBuilder.append(String)
whenever we append a single character to a StringBuilder.
Closes gh-27098
Because of security and broader industry support, support for several
remoting technologies is now deprecated and scheduled for removal in
Spring Framework 6.0.
This commit deprecates the following remoting technologies:
* HTTPInvoker
* RMI
* Hessian
* JMS remoting
Other remoting technologies like EJB or JAXWS might be deprecated in the
future depending on industry support.
Closes gh-25379
Prior to this commit, the Spring Framework build would partially use the
dependency management plugin to import and enforce BOMs.
This commit applies the dependency management plugin to all Java
projects and regroups all version management declaration in the root
`build.gradle` file (versions and exclusions).
Some versions are overridden in specific modules for
backwards-compatibility reasons or extended support.
This commit also adds the Gradle versions plugin that checks for
dependency upgrades in artifact repositories and produces a report; you
can use the following:
./gradlew dependencyUpdates
Due to a bug (or "unintentional feature") in JUnit 4, overridden test
and lifecycle methods not annotated with @Test, @Before, @After, etc.
are still executed as test methods and lifecycle methods; however,
JUnit Jupiter does not support that. Thus, prior to this commit, some
overridden test and lifecycle methods were no longer executed after the
migration from JUnit 4 to JUnit Jupiter.
This commit addresses this issue for such known use cases, but there
are likely other such use cases within Spring's test suite.
See gh-23451