java.util.logging bug 8017174 should be fixed for Java 7

[Sam Reid]

Hi there,

My name is Sam Reid, I am a software engineer at PhET Interactive 
Simulations (http://phet.colorado.edu/) at the University of Colorado 
Boulder.  We publish free, open source educational simulations, most of 
which are developed for the Java runtime and delivered with Java Web 
Start.  We have received many reports from our users that after updating 
to Java 1.7.0_25, our simulations fail to launch.  The problem is the 
one identified in this bug report:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8017174 "8017174 : 
NPE when using Logger.getAnonymousLogger or 
LogManager.getLogManager().getLogger"

The bug report says the problem is fixed for latest JDK 8 but I am 
hoping that a fix will be posted in the Java 1.7.0_xx line as well, and 
hopefully in time for school to start in August.  I am unable to make 
comments in the bug report, even when I am logged in.  Is there a way I 
can comment in that bug report?  Do you think this will get fixed for 
the 1.7.0_xx line?  If so, when?

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Sam