to be used by other ComputerLaunchers to check installed java version

[JENKINS-14814] "Ping-pong" builds store excessively large CauseAction

[FIXED JENKINS-7162] Add missing parameters as defaults when called from...

Add all the job defined Parameters to the ParameterAction using Defaults
if not passed via the command line.

Reduce duplicate entries for the same plugin and version when multiple update centers are publishing similar data

* The whole point of the rule is to allow access to the helper methods, so they need to be public

* also synced up with HudsonTestCase

For instance, use PegDown Formatter and enable SUPPRESS_ALL_HTML.

Based on the following IRC conversations:

 (04:02:29 PM) cliffano: my build slave is offline, "Disk space is too low. Only 0.331GB left on" , but the box has 5.5Gb free.. i've tried disabling the disk space checking, restarted both master and slave, that error message is still there
 (04:03:03 PM) rtyler: I've seen that a couple times, I think I just disconnected and reconnected the slave
 (04:03:47 PM) cliffano: no dice for me.. reconnected several times.. even tried deleting more stuffs to free up more space, still exactly the same error message
 (04:04:04 PM) rtyler: you could try reinstalling windows
 (04:04:06 PM) ***rtyler ducks
 (04:04:22 PM) cliffano: lol yea
 (04:04:49 PM) kohsuke: cliffano: you can force the recomputation of those metrics
 (04:04:56 PM) kohsuke: otherwise it's only once an hour
 (04:05:17 PM) rtyler: wait, you can force it?
 (04:05:37 PM) kohsuke: http://ci.jenkins-ci.org/computer/ "refresh status"
 (04:06:26 PM) rtyler: ah
 (04:07:25 PM) cliffano: kohsuke: thanks, that worked..
 (04:07:43 PM) kohsuke: although I expect that if you've been reconnecting that should be sufficient
 (04:08:08 PM) kohsuke: And I probably should also do that automatically when you reconfigure the column, threashold, etc
 (04:10:39 PM) cliffano: kohsuke: reconnecting didn't help somehow... i tried disconnecting from the UI, tried killing the process on the slave machine, restarted etc
 (04:10:56 PM) kohsuke: it's probably caching the value
 (04:12:16 PM) cliffano: kohsuke: does it cache in the filesystem? i restarted both master and slaves
 (04:13:09 PM) kohsuke: it's stored in Computer
 (04:13:11 PM) kohsuke: so I guess that explains
 (04:13:34 PM) kohsuke: let me clear this when a slave connects
 (04:16:23 PM) cliffano: kohsuke: thanks :)