8370910: Cleanup terminology of UUID vs Global Identifiers in UUID

Reviewed-by: jpai
Backport-of: 6aeabd4bfaca168e9c88716b185979cf1e1b85ed
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Roger Riggs 2025-12-16 04:14:11 +00:00
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@ -32,12 +32,11 @@ import jdk.internal.access.SharedSecrets;
import jdk.internal.util.ByteArrayLittleEndian;
/**
* A class that represents an immutable universally unique identifier (UUID).
* A class that represents an immutable Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID).
* A UUID represents a 128-bit value.
*
* <p> There exist different variants of these global identifiers. 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.
*
* <p> The layout of a variant 2 (Leach-Salz) UUID is as follows:
*