[7u10] Request for approval: 6997116: The case automatically failed due to java.lang.ClassCastException.

[Andrew Brygin]

Hello,

Requesting approval to commit fix for 6997116 into 7u10.

The fix has already been pushed to jdk8, the change for 7u10
is exactly same.

Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6997116
jdk8 changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/2d/jdk/rev/7746eb8c610b
Webrev:  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bae/6997116/7u10/webrev.00/
Review thread: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2012-September/002710.html
Reviewed by: Jennifer Godinez, Phil Race

Thanks,
Andrew