[Building Sakai] [WG: Sakai QA] Upgrade to Spring 2.5.6

[Mustansar Mehmood]

after looking at the patch  by Zach 
Thomas,(http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-16029) it seems 
changes are limited to pom files. sakai 2.6 could be a candidate for 
this patch. ?
Noah Botimer wrote:
> It may be worth pulling commons-codec into shared as part of this. 
> There is part of it included as source in util, then packed as a jar 
> dependency at different versions in other places. It should be 
> straightforward to clear these up.
>
> Thanks,
> -Noah
>
> On Apr 9, 2009, at 4:25 AM, David Horwitz wrote:
>
>> I was going to send out a mail immediately after 2.6.x was released 
>> to suggest we upgrade a range of libraries then, so we have a long 
>> testing lead before 2.7 my list now includes:
>>
>>
>> 1) Spring
>> 2) commons-lang
>> 3) javax.mail/activation
>>
>> Any others?
>>
>> David
>>
>> Mustansar Mehmood wrote:
>>> +1
>>> I think it is always a good idea to move to new libraries for sake of
>>> getting rid of bugs
>>> introducing new technologies which will invite wider community 
>>> development enthusiasts to join sakai development/integration community
>>> --mustansar
>>> Zach A. Thomas wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Hi everyone. I have submitted two patches (one for kernel trunk, one  
>>>> for sakai trunk) to upgrade this ball of wax to Spring 2.5.6.
>>>>
>>>> Aaron Zeckoski very helpfully provided me with an update of generic- 
>>>> dao which was necessary to make this work.
>>>>
>>>> Any comments are welcome. My motivation for doing this is that it is a  
>>>> pre-requisite for what I _really_ want to do, which is provide full  
>>>> support for Grails as a tool-development stack for Sakai.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a summary of changes in 2.5.0, and of course there have been  
>>>> plenty of fixes since then:
>>>> http://www.springsource.org/node/561
>>>>
>>>> If these patches are deemed worthy, they must both be applied at the  
>>>> same time for trunk to remain alive and kicking:
>>>> http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/KNL-150
>>>> http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-16029
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Zach Thomas
>>>> Owner, Aeroplane Software LLC
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Mustansar  Mehmood
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Academic & Research Computing
Rice University
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