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Both escalations were closed w/o requesting a fix at the moment (14113650,14404094). The proposed fix will not be integrated into 5 and 6 until escalated due to potential performance degradation. I raise the priority back to P3 in order to not forget that the issue should be addressed in jdk8 first, which would require some refactoring of annotations-related code.
15-10-2012
EVALUATION
Due to of Annotation/AnnotationType interdependency a deadlock is possible at a time of initializations.