GH-3379: Spring Framework 7.x compatibility #4771
                
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This PR adds compatibility with Spring Framework 7 to enable early adoption
*Apiclasses inmodelsmodules to simplify extensibility; effective final fields are marked as finalNOTE: this PR doesn't add support of Spring Boot 4 - it requires a separate and much bigger change and will be carried over in separate PR. This PR doesn't break existing Spring Boot 3.5 / Spring Framework 6 compatibility and can be merged into Spring AI 1.1.x release