Looking for reviewers and a sponsor. Webrev is available at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/JDK-7199324/webrev.00
The issue is about the JMX client connection ID not being generated accordingly to the specification when including an IPv6 address. The specification states that in such case the address must be enclosed in square brackets. The current implementation, however, returns the plain numeric address, contradicting the specification. The fix simply checks for the presence of ":" character in the address part of the connection ID and escapes the address if necessary. Since the ":" can be present only in a numeric IPv6 address this check is sufficient. The change to test just covers for checking proper escaping - I am not sure how to force IPv6 to be used from the test; probably it is not possible. The test will check the IPv6 address escaping when and only when the system setup will cause the JMX client to connect over IPv6. Thanks, -JB-
