8370910: Cleanup terminology of UUID vs Global Identifiers in UUID

[kieran-farrell]

Replacing 'global identifier' with 'UUID' for consistancy in the spec as suggested during the review of JDK-8334015.

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• JDK-8370910: Cleanup terminology of UUID vs Global Identifiers in UUID (Bug - P4)

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• Jaikiran Pai (@jaikiran - Reviewer) Review applies to b068d6d7
• Alan Bateman (@AlanBateman - Reviewer)
• Roger Riggs (@RogerRiggs - Reviewer)

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[RogerRiggs]

Looks straight-forward.
There is a typo in the PR description of the earlier issue, should be 8334025.

[kieran-farrell]

PR description edited to include correct Bug ID

[jaikiran]

Looks good to me.

[AlanBateman]

Maybe change this to "Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID)" too.

[AlanBateman]

What would you think about replacing this paragraph with this:

"This class is primarily designed for manipulating Leach-Salz variant UUIDs, but it also supports the creation of UUIDs of other variants."

[RogerRiggs]

@kieran-farrell Nudge, see the suggestion above.

[AlanBateman]

@kieran-farrell Nudge, see the suggestion above.

Yes, let's try to get this done before the fork so it goes with the main update to the UUID class description.

[ExE-Boss]

Something like this?

Suggested change

	* <p> There exist different variants of these UUIDs. The methods
	* of this class are for manipulating the Leach-Salz variant, although the
	* constructors allow the creation of any variant of UUID (described below).
	* <p>This class is primarily designed for manipulating Leach-Salz variant UUIDs,
	* but it also supports the creation of UUIDs of other variants.

[RogerRiggs]

Don't wait but for doc-only changes there is a bit more time until RPD2.

[kieran-farrell]

Apologies for the hold up I was OOO. I've pushed the update now.

[AlanBateman]

Good

[kieran-farrell]

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Looks good, thanks for the followup.

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