Upgrade Sakai to Spring 4.2 (4.2.7 currently available)
Description
So when I was looking at another issue thinking it could be spring, I saw that it seemed like Sakai started up with Spring 4.2.7 without much effort and we didn't need the hibernate upgrade for it yet.
It looks like from the blog that Hibernate 3 was finally removed in Spring 4.3 but still good to go in 4.2 and that version actually is getting support through 2016. So because this looks so low risk I figured I'd put it out there and we can look for the higher risk Spring 4.3 hibernate 4/5 update for Sakai 12.
There's no specific test plan for this, basically a general smoke/regression test of just using Sakai shouldn't result in anything unusual in the logs after this patch is merged.
The big pieces changed appeared to be around the web services and a few database calls but it looked fine to me. I'd consider this a 11.2 merge candidate.
Everything compiled with a few modifications to dashboard and everything started up after updating CXF to the latest version. sakai-ws looks okay just looking at the WSDL. There were no errors in the logs and initial smoke testing looks good.
So when I was looking at another issue thinking it could be spring, I saw that it seemed like Sakai started up with Spring 4.2.7 without much effort and we didn't need the hibernate upgrade for it yet.
It looks like from the blog that Hibernate 3 was finally removed in Spring 4.3 but still good to go in 4.2 and that version actually is getting support through 2016. So because this looks so low risk I figured I'd put it out there and we can look for the higher risk Spring 4.3 hibernate 4/5 update for Sakai 12.
https://spring.io/blog/2016/06/10/spring-framework-4-3-goes-ga