[FIXED JENKINS-18589]

Use DescribableList to handle the copy-on-write semantics correctly. The vector class just doesn't cut it, and we've been setting a new value to this field, which will violates all sorts of the concurrent programming practice.

This change has the nice side effect of removing {{class="vector"}} from the persisted XML. A test is added to make sure we can still read back such an XML.