Juergen Hoeller opened SPR-13112 and commented
WebAsyncUtils uses reflection to create a StandardServletAsyncWebRequest, trying to avoid a Servlet 3.0 API dependency, despite an inner class delegate approach working equally well. Let's avoid the reflection overhead if we can, since we're doing this per (asynchronous) request.
Affects: 4.1.6, 4.2 RC1