fix: stop exporting Spring Framework from the Spring module

[totally-not-ai]

Summary

The plain Spring module no longer pulls in Spring Framework (spring-context) for the application. The application now declares Spring itself, so the application decides the Spring version, not the kit.

What changed

Behavior change: spring-context is now an optional dependency in observability-kit-spring, so it no longer comes in through the kit. This affects plain Spring apps (without Spring Boot) that use observability-kit-spring and got spring-context only through the kit. These apps must now declare spring-context themselves (plus spring-web for the HTTP observation hooks), best with org.springframework:spring-framework-bom imported.

• vaadin-spring stays a compile dependency of observability-kit-spring, so the module still brings it. Spring itself leaves vaadin-spring in feat(spring)!: stop exporting Spring dependencies at compile scope flow#25927.
• The starter is unchanged here. chore: move to version 25.4-SNAPSHOT for Vaadin 25.4 #413 already made spring-web a direct dependency of the starter, and fix: count resyncs from Flow events so the starter no longer needs spring-web #415 handles making it optional.
• The plain Spring test application now declares vaadin-spring directly.
• README: the plain Spring section now says the module brings vaadin-spring but not Spring, and tells users to declare Spring Framework and import its BOM.

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[heruan]

Starter changes look good now, agree with Artur. A few things on the Spring module:

1. spring-context still comes in transitively. vaadin-spring is a compile dependency here and brings spring-webmvc, which depends on spring-context, spring-web, spring-beans and spring-core (see mvn dependency:tree -pl :observability-kit-spring). So the kit still picks the Spring version. To fix it, mark vaadin-spring as optional too. Apps using this module are Vaadin Spring apps, so they already have it.
2. Please use <optional>true</optional> instead of provided for spring-context. That matches spring-web in the same POM and is the usual Spring convention. provided is for things the container gives at runtime, like the servlet API.
3. With the current POM, "you must now add spring-context yourself" in the description is not true. Please update it after the fix. The README could also say the app needs vaadin-spring, and suggest spring-framework-bom to align Spring versions.

[totally-not-ai]

@heruan Thanks, all three are addressed:

1. vaadin-spring is no longer exported by observability-kit-spring. The main code does not use it, only a test does, so it is now test scope. dependency:tree -pl :observability-kit-spring shows no non-optional Spring artifacts any more. The starter had been getting spring-web (for OncePerRequestFilter behind the resync detection filter) through vaadin-spring, so it now declares spring-web as optional; the application's web starter provides it. The plain-Spring integration test application relied on vaadin-spring coming transitively and now declares it.
2. spring-context is now <optional>true</optional> instead of provided, matching spring-web.
3. The description is rewritten: it no longer says the application must add spring-context, and it explains that the application brings vaadin-spring and Spring. The README's plain-Spring section now says the application brings vaadin-spring and Spring Framework, and suggests importing spring-framework-bom to keep their versions aligned.

Unit tests pass (503) and the integration test applications build.

[Artur-]

The dependency on vaadin-spring should remain as that one is fixed in a flow pr, right?

[totally-not-ai]

@Artur- Right. I restored vaadin-spring as a normal compile dependency of observability-kit-spring and updated the README to match: the module brings vaadin-spring, while Spring Framework comes from the application. spring-context stays optional, and the starter keeps its optional spring-web, which it needs to compile the resync detection filter once vaadin-spring no longer exports it.

One caveat: the kit currently builds against Flow 25.3. Until it moves to a Flow version that includes vaadin/flow#25927, vaadin-spring still brings spring-webmvc and the core Spring artifacts with it, so Spring is only fully gone from the kit's dependency tree after that version bump.