6445180: URLClassLoader does not describe the behavior of several methods with respect to null arguments
Summary: Document when a NPE will be thrown by URLClassLoader constructors, newInstance(), findClass(), and getPermissions().
Reviewed-by: alanb, mduigou, chegar, dholmes, jrose

Reviewed-by: mchung, chegar

Summary: <code> and <tt> converted to {@code }; package.html to package-info.java
Reviewed-by: darcy, chegar

Reviewed-by: dholmes, mchung, ksrini

Summary: Minor changes to networking java files to remove warnings
Reviewed-by: chegar, weijun, hawtin
Contributed-by: kurchi.subhra.hazra@oracle.com, sasha_bu@hotmail.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes

6829919: URLClassLoader.close() doesn't close resource file if getResourceAsStream(...) was called before
Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Summary: Added new performance counters in the JDK to track performance metrics
Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, iris, forax, andrew

Summary: Modified to handle race condition for parallel-capable classloaders by re-trying/re-verifying package
Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Added support for parallel-capable class loaders
Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: added close method to URLClassLoader
Reviewed-by: alanb

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

Reviewed-by: alanb, iris, lmalvent, bristor, peterjones, darcy, wetmore