This change restores the old behaviour in Spring 3.0, as near as I can tell, without breaking the Groovy aspect changes introduced in 3.1.
Since no-one has come up with a test case for all the catch blocks and there is no test project for the WAS case (I tried) we have to rely on the users in the JIRA thread to test this change.
Comment From: rstoyanchev
Closing as the related issue has been fixed.