JDK 8 Review Request for 6854712 (JEP 124), 6637288 and 7126011

[Sean Mullan]

Vinnie,

Can you please review my changes for 6854712 (JEP 124). It also includes 
fixes for a couple of other CRs: 6637288 and 7126011. Other reviewers 
are welcome too.

The webrev: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mullan/webrevs/6854712_6637288_7126011/webrev.00/

The CRs:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6854712
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6637288
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7126011

There are a large number of changes, so please let me know if you need 
additional time, but I would like to push the changes by early next 
week, if possible.

Thanks,
Sean