Reviewed-by: jjg, darcy, weijun

Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Reviewed-by: rupashka

Reviewed-by: alexp

Reviewed-by: jasper, ohair

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: malenkov
Contributed-by: NFlorian Brunner <fbrunnerlist@gmx.ch>

Summary: Removed unnecessary castings and other warnings
Reviewed-by: malenkov

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

Summary: Add the Transient annotation and support it (JSR-273)
Reviewed-by: peterz, loneid

Summary: avoid using constructors when unique values are not necessary
Reviewed-by: volk, igor, peterz