4313887: New I/O: Improved filesystem interface
4607272: New I/O: Support asynchronous I/O
Reviewed-by: sherman, chegar

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

Summary: update to check null arg for all Channels methods
Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: InvalidMarkException now correctly thrown. Thanks to keiths@redhat.com for the bug report and initial fix.
Reviewed-by: sherman, darcy

Summary: update the spec and implementation to throw ClosedSelectorException
Reviewed-by: alanb

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

Summary: Change return type to CharBuffer
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: iris, sherman, chegar

Reviewed-by: iris

Summary: Update the spec and code to accept '+' as a charset name character
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: mchung, iris

Reviewed-by: sherman, iris

Summary: Update the API doc to correct the wrong description
Reviewed-by: alanb

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

Summary: API doc update regarding BOM hanlding in UTF-16 charsets
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: iris
Contributed-by: roman.kennke@aicas.com

Reviewed-by: iris, sherman

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

Reviewed-by: mr, iris