This is a request to backport the following changset into 7u8. I believe Sean Coffey has agreed to sponsor this. bugs.sun.com link: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7185471 JDK8 changset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/9e97dacbfd35 -- Tom Deneau