RFR: 8370910: Cleanup terminology of UUID vs Global Identifiers in UUID

[Alan Bateman]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:07:36 GMT, Kieran Farrell <kfarrell at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Replacing 'global identifier' with 'UUID' for consistancy in the spec as suggested during the review of JDK-8334015.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/UUID.java line 35:

> 33: 
> 34: /**
> 35:  * A class that represents an immutable universally unique identifier (UUID).

Maybe change this to "Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID)" too.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28435#discussion_r2548816352