[7u12] Request for approval for 7146763, 7151348, 7152007: RMI warnings fixes

[Stuart Marks]

Hi all,

This is a request to backport some RMI warnings fixes. I'm not actually very 
concerned with warnings in 7u. This is really about making the RMI source code 
in 7u and 8 more consistent. In backporting other changes, I've found that the 
warnings fixes generate conflicts, and in general they make the diffs confusing 
to read.

The story with the three changesets is that the first changeset broke some 
things in rmic, the second reverted those specific changes, and the third 
applies the fixed changes.

The three patches applied cleanly, without modification. I ran a build with 
SKIP_BOOT_CYCLE=false and it completed successfully and passed all tests. Er, 
the number of test failures was unchanged relative to recent 7u12 builds. :-/

The three changesets from JDK8 are as follows:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/8f61ac5986ee
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/ce6b852bf4e2
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/337d4570b8d6

changeset:   5085:8f61ac5986ee
user:        khazra
date:        Fri Mar 02 13:48:43 2012 -0800
summary:     7146763: Warnings cleanup in the sun.rmi and related packages

changeset:   5090:ce6b852bf4e2
user:        khazra
date:        Mon Mar 05 17:38:01 2012 -0800
summary:     7151348: Build breaks due to warning clean up in sun.rmi.*(7146763)

changeset:   5142:337d4570b8d6
user:        khazra
date:        Fri Mar 16 11:52:48 2012 -0700
summary:     7152007: Fix warnings in sun/rmi/rmic

Review email threads are as follows:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-February/009315.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-March/009423.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-March/009476.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-March/009589.html

Links to bugs are:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7146763
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7151348
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7152007

Thanks,

s'marks