Summary: Removes the use of shared character array buffers by String along with the two fields needed to support the use of shared buffers.
Reviewed-by: alanb, mduigou, forax, briangoetz
Contributed-by: brian.doherty@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Use CHECK_NULL_RETURN instead of CHECK_NULL
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb, okutsu

Summary: Work around 'gobjcopy' failures on Solaris by adding temporary tools to add the '.gnu_debuglink' section and remove the SHF_ALLOC flag from "empty" section headers.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Summary: update javadoc for NumberFormatException
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: mchung, mfang

Reviewed-by: yhuang

Reviewed-by: okutsu

Reviewed-by: jrose, smarks

Summary: update javadoc for IllegalArgumentException and NumberFormatException
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: chegar, coffeys

Reviewed-by: jrose, sspitsyn

Summary: Enable Windows Version 6.2 to be recognized as Windows 8
Reviewed-by: darcy, dholmes, alanb, chegar

Reviewed-by: valeriep

Reviewed-by: art

Reviewed-by: alanb, dsamersoff, nloodin

Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: alexsch

Reviewed-by: art, kizune

7124400: [macosx] CGraphicsDevice.getConfigurations() returns reference to member (does not copy configs)
Reviewed-by: anthony, kizune

Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: xuelei

Summary: Remove SHA224withRSA signature from SunMSCAPI provider due to lack of windows support.
Reviewed-by: vinnie

Reviewed-by: art

Reviewed-by: vinnie, wetmore

Reviewed-by: alanb, dsamersoff

Summary: forward posrt from 7u4
Reviewed-by: art

Summary: forward port from 7u4
Reviewed-by: art

7125044: [macosx] Test failure because Component.transferFocus() works differently in applet and application.
Summary: forward port from 7u4
Reviewed-by: art

Summary: forward posrt from 7u4
Reviewed-by: anthony

Summary: forward port from 7u4
Reviewed-by: anthony

Summary: ZIP libjsig.debuginfo links into libjsig.diz files since aurora doesn't like dangling symlinks
Reviewed-by: katleman