Summary: Create extra constant pool cache entries for invokespecial/InterfaceMethodref to hold the alternate resolution.
Reviewed-by: jrose, lfoltan, hseigel

Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman
Contributed-by: NDavid Simms <david.simms@oracle.com>

Summary: Zero metadata in constructors, not in allocation (and some in constructors)
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sspitsyn

Summary: Add/refine new tracing support using -XX:TraceRedefineClasses=16384.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, sspitsyn

8001658: No need to pass resolved_references as argument to ConstantPoolCacheEntry::set_method_handle_common
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, kvn

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Removed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

Summary: Fix block_size_if_printezis_bits() so it does not expect the bits, only uses them when available. Fix block_size_no_stall() so it does not stall when the bits are missing such cases, letting the caller deal with zero size returns. Constant pool cache oops do not need to be unparsable or conc_unsafe after their klass pointer is installed. Some cosmetic clean-ups and some assertion checking for conc-usafety which, in the presence of class file redefinition, has no a-priori time boundedness, so all GCs must be able to safely deal with putatively conc-unsafe objects in a stop-world pause.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Allow CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic nodes to have any number of extra operands.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold