Require Jackson 2.6+, FreeMarker 2.3.21+, XStream 1.4.5+ [SPR-13062]

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Juergen Hoeller opened SPR-13062 and commented

• Jackson 2.6 went GA in July 2015, almost a year ago by the time of our 4.3 GA release. Let's get rid of the reflective checks and deprecated method calls in MappingJackson2MessageConverter and AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.

• FreeMarker 2.3.21 was released in October 2014, as a rather major update. Let's get rid of the deprecated method calls in FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory and FreeMarkerView.

• XStream 1.4.5 was released in September 2013. Let's finally require it and get rid of the deprecated constructor call in XStreamMarshaller.

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Issue Links:

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