Code Review Request for 6977738

[Alan Bateman]

Mandy Chung wrote:
>  Alan, David,
>
> I revise the fix including the following:
> 1. Use the lazy initialization holder class idiom to initialize the bcp
> variable to simplify the synchronization.
>
> 2. Group the initialization of system properties in a new private method
> System.initializeSystemProperties so that it can save a copy for internal
> implementation use to address the deadlock issue and remove the
> properties that are intended for private internal use from public access
> before initializing the System.props.  This removes the 2 calls to
> System.setProperties.
>
> 3. Reorder sun.net.* in FILES_java.gmk
>
> The new webrev is at:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/6977738/webrev.01/
This looks much better (and thanks for doing the various 
drive-by-clean-ups).

I assume BootClassPathHolder should be private, and that the bcp field 
can be final.

Minor nit but but the IllegalStateExceptions thrown by 
VM.getSavedProperty capitalizes the first letter of the message whereas 
VM.saveAndRemoveProperties doesn't.

I wonder if it would be worth seeing if saveAndRemoveProperties could 
grab the value of the java.lang.Integer.IntegerCache.high property. That 
would allow us to be handle it more consistently with these other 
properties that we save during initialization. The cache initialization 
could then use VM.getSavedProperty to get the value. Might be worth 
thinking about but you would need to be careful to ensure that 
Integer.valueOf isn't called as otherwise isn't not going to work.

-Alan.