Sunbug 6934356: Vector.writeObject() synchronization risks serialization deadlock

[Alan Bateman]

Neil Richards wrote:
> Based on Alan Bateman's feedback for my fix for a similar problem seen
> in java.util.Hashtable
> (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2011-January/005601.html),
> I've revised the changeset once again to use diamond operators in the
> testcases, and to their main methods throw Exceptions directly (rather
> than catching them in the cause of a RuntimeException).
>
> Also based on Dalibor Topic's suggestion
> (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2010-December/005533.html),
> I'm attaching the updated changeset as a webrev zip file, for ease of
> review.
>
> Please review this modified changeset, and let me know if anything
> further is required for its acceptance.
>   
Looks okay to me. One minor comment is that you might want to update 
writeObject's description where it currently reads "It just calls the 
default writeObject method". A minor nit in the tests is that the date 
range should be "2010, 2011," rather than "2010-2011".

-Alan.