Hi Jim,
Just quick reply to some of your questions.
1) TransformUtils.java: My initial take was to delete this class but
after chatting with Kevin, we decided to keep it in the interest of
limiting the scope of this change. Moving those methods will touch much
more files. We have about 2 week
bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156094
webrev for 9-dev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~flar/JDK-8156094/9-dev/webrev.00/
webrev for 8u-dev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~flar/JDK-8156094/8u-dev/webrev.00/
The two fixes ended up being closer than I thought due to an idiosyncrasy of ho