[POST] - Migration of legacy Spring projects to current Spring Versions

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A series of blog posts describing the steps required to migrate a Java 7 legacy Spring (Version 4.0.6.RELEASE) client and web server applications using a common (external JAR) dependency which include:

• Spring Security (Version 3.2.3.RELEASE)

• Spring Security OAuth (Version 2.0.2.RELEASE)

• Spring WebMVC

• Spring JDBC

• XML data streams

• JAXB for XML marshaling

• Cucumber based testing

• .JSP webpages

The resulting project will contain the following supported upgrades:

• Java 11

• Spring Boot

• Spring Security

• Spring Web

• Spring DevTools

• Lombok

• Mapstruct

• Tymeleaf

• Spring JPA

• Cloud Platform support (detail yet to be defined)

• Spring Actuator