Note: This is a relabeling and extension of a patch originally addressed towards https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8078586 in this discussion thread http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-April/033037.html.
With that preamble, please review the revised code at your convenience: Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8078672 Patch: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8078672/webrev.00/ Summary: Add setting of Random seed via system property with fallback to a random seed from a separate Random instance and printing the seed actually used in the test. Thanks, Brian