Reviewed-by: alanb, smarks, dholmes, dmocek

Summary: Avoids mostly benign but sometimes expensive race condition on initialization of UUID.numberGenerator which is used by UUID.randomUUID()
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

Summary: Insert null argument check in AbstractPreferences.remove()
Reviewed-by: dholmes, chegar, alanb

Reviewed-by: wetmore

Summary: Add support for SHA-224, SHA224withRSA, SHA224withECDSA, HmacSHA224 and OAEPwithSHA-224AndMGF1Padding.
Reviewed-by: vinnie

Summary: updated SeekableByteChannel.read() to count the bytes read correctly
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: paul.sandoz@oracle.com

7014640: To add a metachar \R for line ending and character classes for vertical/horizontal ws \v \V \h \H
Summary: added propsoed constructs
Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Perform class.getField inside a doPrivileged block
Reviewed-by: chegar, psandoz

Reviewed-by: anthony, leonidr

Reviewed-by: mullan

7164570: (fs) WatchService queues CREATE event but not DELETE event for very short lived files [sol11]
Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: rupashka

Summary: Insert null check of argument in remove()'s implementation
Reviewed-by: forax, chegar, alanb

Reviewed-by: rupashka

Reviewed-by: mchung, darcy

7131021: [macosx] Consider using system properties to pass arguments from the launcher to AWT/SplashScreen
Summary: Document the environment variables and add tests
Reviewed-by: ksrini

Summary: Open-source the tests
Reviewed-by: art

7132924: (dc) DatagramChannel.disconnect throws SocketException with IPv4 socket and IPv6 enabled [macosx]
Reviewed-by: chegar

Summary: pack200 implementation of JSR-200 updated for JSR-292 changes
Reviewed-by: jrose, ksrini
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: rupashka

Summary: Make sure the cursor is visible by setVisible(true)
Reviewed-by: rupashka, alexp

Summary: Enable finding "foo1.jar"
Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Remove usage of HTTP Server at test/sun/net/www/httptest
Reviewed-by: chegar, alanb

Summary: bring JDK8 up to date to what we have in 7u4
Reviewed-by: lancea, mullan

Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar
Contributed-by: jim.gish@oracle.com, forax@univ-mlv.fr

Reviewed-by: prr

Summary: Provide the missing implementation UnixOperatingSystem on Mac OS X
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed

Summary: On Mac OS X, align system property "os.arch" with Apple legacy JDKs.  Also, improve os.name string matching by using .contains() method instead of .startsWith(). This fix spans multiple repositories.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, phh, ohair, katleman

Reviewed-by: michaelm, chegar

Reviewed-by: prr

Reviewed-by: alanb

7149090: Nimbus:BorderFactory.createTitledBorder() the DEFAULT position of a title is not the same as the TOP
Reviewed-by: alexp

7155693: CodeSource.matchLocation getPort test can be improved
Reviewed-by: chegar

Summary: Updated to throw IAE instead.
Reviewed-by: lancea

Summary: To use doPrivileged block to wrap the data reading code
Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: To use URI.getRawSchemeSpecificPart() to get the scheme part of the uri
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

Reviewed-by: alexp