Summary: Removed unnecessary castings and other warnings
Reviewed-by: peterz
Contributed-by: NFlorian Brunner <fbrunnerlist@gmx.ch>

Summary: FlowStrategy.damageStart now tracks position changes
Reviewed-by: gsm

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

Summary: Several swing.text methods are not marked thread-safe anymore.
Reviewed-by: gsm