7u40 Request for approval for CR: 8017174: NPE when using Logger.getAnonymousLogger or LogManager.getLogManager().getLogger

[Daniel Fuchs]

Hi,

This is a request to backport 8017174 to 7u40 [1].

This is a regression from 7u25 causing applets calling 
Logger.getAnonymousLogger() to fail.

This fix has been resolved in jdk7u-dev and jdk8. WLS and GlassFish
has done some preliminary testing with the 7u engineering build
with this fix and found no new regression.

Open review thread:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-June/018518.html

The JDK 8 changeset is here:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/020f023f87d1

It applied cleanly to the jdk7u-dev source base (hg export | hg import).
JDK 7 changeset:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/7064285022a0

best regards,

-- daniel

Backport bug id:
[1] https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8020493