Add generics to com.sun.jini.config.Config static methods

Just a nicety to remove boilerplate casts, see my recent commit to qa_refactor, svn revision 1554723 If there are any objections I'll revert this change as it isn't critical. Regards, Peter.

Fw: Your Report (Bug ID: 9009410 ) - UnresolvedPermission isn't resolved causing SecurityException

This is for the test failures on River-2.2.2 on Windows, where test failures are being caused by permissions not resolving due to a data race on a boolean field in java.security.Permissions - Original message - >From bug-report-daemon...@oracle.com Sent  Mon,  6 Jan 2014, 12:50:59 ES

Re: Development Process - Experimental Testing, Theoretical analysis; code auditing and Static Analysis

On Jan 4, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Peter wrote: >> >> “we’re using final variables, therefore all our code has to change” >> (paraphrasing) are no substitute for reasoned analysis. > > You don't agree that final field usage should comply with the JMM? > > Please also read the Java Memory Model. >

Re: TaskManager as an ExecutorService

I think the better choice is to not try and handle failure with retry at all. Instead, we should use API which allows the dependent task to know whether it’s dependent has completed or failed. It can then report failure if its dependent failed, or submit its own work to be executed in the que