RFR: 8370910: Cleanup terminology of UUID vs Global Identifiers in UUID [v2]

[Alan Bateman]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:03:43 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.
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> Kieran Farrell has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   spec update

src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/UUID.java line 38:

> 36:  * A UUID represents a 128-bit value.
> 37:  *
> 38:  * <p> There exist different variants of these UUIDs.  The methods

What would you think about replacing this paragraph with this: 

"This class is primarily designed for manipulating Leach-Salz variant UUIDs, but it also supports the creation of UUIDs of other variants."

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28435#discussion_r2549413435