RFR: 8334015: Add Support for UUID Version 7 (UUIDv7) defined in RFC 9562 [v18]

[Kieran Farrell]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 13:00:59 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Kieran Farrell has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   remove old test case reference
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/UUID.java line 210:
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>> 208:      *
>> 209:      * @spec https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html
>> 210:      *       RFC 9562 Universally Unique IDentifiers (UUIDs)
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> The updated class description means the class now has a prominent link to RFC, so not sure about having another link here. If we are linking then can we link to ##name-uuid-version-7.

I'll remove the spec reference to align with the methods for other versions.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25303#discussion_r2417121926