Spring 2.5.5 upgrade breaks all clients

[jamoore]

Spring 2.5.5's LdapTemplate implementation doesn't accept non-String values

Spring changed their implementation of LdapTemplate to read only the String-valued instances out of the Properties-based environment. We use a ome.system.Principal instance as our user-name, so this breaks all RMI clients.

Spring 2.5.2+ does not handle the clients "properties" bean

Whereas in <= 2.5.1:

  new ServiceFactory(new Server("localhost", new Login("me","something"));

would work without a local.properties file, 2.5.2+ do not.

[jmoore]

r2731 closes.

[jmoore]

Another issue, which showed up only via WebAdmin? is in the Spring 2.5.5 jar. All the other components use the lifecycle.prepare target to copy local.properties et al. into target/generated/resources. WebAdmin? does not, which is why everything else seemed to work ok.

In fact, all Spring jars from 2.5.2 to 2.5.5 are broken for our usage. They do not properly lookup our properties ("omero.user", etc.) If I can't find a fix, we'll have to rollback.

[jmoore]

r2756 closes the parent context issue.

This is actually a fairly unattractive solution which could again break in a number of ways. I've logged #1068 to re-evaluate our use and clean it up. Breakage like this is pretty unnecessary.