Summary: Updates to Visual Studio project creation and development launcher
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Summary: Add new development launcher called hotspot(.exe)
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Added an ifndef DONT_USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER to precompiled.hpp. Set up DONT_USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER when compiling with Sun Studio or when the user specifies USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER=0. Fixed broken include dependencies.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

Summary: Added target architecture parameters to make ADLC build properly
Reviewed-by: never, stefank

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, dholmes, andrew, kvn

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Fix the compiler error. Allow to build just c2 specifying FORCE_TIERED=0 on the command line.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

Reviewed-by: ohair, valeriep

Reviewed-by: ohair, jcoomes

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

6951582: Build problems on win64
Summary: Changes to enable building JDK7 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Reviewed-by: ohair, art, ccheung, dcubed

Summary: Fix build.bat so invoking command shell doesn't exit on error. Fix dirname assumptions. Document some MKS environment dependencies.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Clean up get_msc_ver, build.bat and build.make in general and for Cygwin.
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: The build fails if the bootstrap JDK defaults to <1.5
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose, twisti

Summary: Add 2 news classes to create VC8 and VC9 projects
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, xlu

Summary: Allow Hotspot builds with latest Windows SDK 6.1 on 64bit Windows 2003
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell, jcoomes

Summary: These changes enable the SA binaries build with hotspot build on Windows
Reviewed-by: swamyv

Summary: Remove duplicate files and add includeDB_gc_g1 file in windows Makefile
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, ysr

Summary: Minor changes required to build using the Visual Studio 2008 compiler
Reviewed-by: kvn, ohair

Summary: sa-jdi.jar bundled with JDK should include all the SA classes.
Reviewed-by: swamyv

Summary: An expansion by 0 bytes was not anticipated when the assertion was composed.
Reviewed-by: jjh, jcoomes, apetrusenko

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: adds JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader entry point, for jdk's use
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

Summary: Moved makefiles out of build and build/closed into make/
Reviewed-by: kvn, ohair