Summary: Implemented the interface in sun.misc.URLClassPath and corresponding JVM_XXX APIs
Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn, jiangli, dholmes

8056175: Change "8048150: Allow easy configurations for large CDS archives" triggers conversion warning with older GCC
Summary: cast the result of the conversion to uintx
Reviewed-by: ccheung, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Estimate the size of shared archive based on the number of classes in the classlist file
Reviewed-by: iklam, jiangli, minqi, dholmes

Summary: Cleaned up CDS to be more configurable, maintainable and extensible
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn, mchung

8038268: VM Crashes in MetaspaceShared::generate_vtable_methods while creating CDS archive with limiting SharedMiscCodeSize
Summary: estimate the minimum required size for the misc code region and check if the specified misc code region size meets the minimum size requirement
Reviewed-by: jiangli, dholmes

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>