Upgrade to spring 4.1.0.RELEASE

[dilipkrish]

Not really sure if there is a reason this project is lagging behind the release train. Seemed simple enough to upgrade.

[dschulten]

Please keep spring-hateoas compatible with 3.x. Sorry, but we cannot use Spring 4 just yet.

[odrotbohm]

@dilipkrish - What's the deeper reason for this upgrade. You can already use Spring HATEOAS with Spring 4.0.
@dschulten - Strongly recommend to upgrade, a move of Spring HATEOAS to 4.0 sooner than later is inevitable. :)

[dilipkrish]

@olivergierke The reason I initially created the pr is so that I could start some preliminary support for a hypermedia layer on top of swagger. I was hoping to take advantage of some of the newer features such as static resource support.

So to answer your question, its not really a pressing PR, but I'm curious about the release schedule for the hateoas project. Its not really clear what the relationship is and why its behind the spring fx release train. Any insights on that and what the roadmap for this project in the near future would be helpful.

[odrotbohm]

Superseded by #311, upgraded to Spring 4.0.9.RELEASE.

[dilipkrish]

Why 4.0.9 vs 4.1.x?

[odrotbohm]

The policy (mostly originating from Spring Data modules) is to be on the last but one major version. A reasonable balance to not cut off users that might not be able to upgrade to the latest and greatest (due to whatever reason) but still stay relatively up to date.

Note, that the version is only a lower baseline for us to build against. We make sure, Spring HATEOAS is working fine on more recent versions of Spring Framework.

[dilipkrish]

👍 Thanks!