Fix for 5015163, and my first webrev

[Alan Bateman]

Kevin Bourrillion wrote:
> Bumping this thread.  From the peanut gallery, I believe that Rémi's 
> change is extremely worthy.  I have more nitpicking I'd like to do on 
> it, but am holding off until we learn whether Sun would accept it in 
> any shape.
>
> At this point, it's still very mysterious to me how this will work 
> (small, simple new APIs being added to core libraries via openjdk).
I agree it's worth continuing this. As you said, it's one of those 
things that almost everyone has written many times.

Mark sent out a link a few days ago to a draft process for jdk7 
development [1]. I assume in time this will detail the process for 
reviewing API additions and replacing the current (Sun-internal) CCC 
process.

-Alan.

[1] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7-dev/2009-February/000411.html