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

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, 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>

Summary: Make CDS reorder vtables so that dump time vtables match run time order, so when redefine classes reinitializes them, they aren't in the wrong order.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: Only call <clinit> with ACC_STATIC for classfiles with version > 50
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Removed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: hotspot should check protection attribute besides the name and signature of the method when constructing vtable.
Reviewed-by: dcubed

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

Reviewed-by: pbk, kvn

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Remove incorrect optimization in klassItable::adjust_method_entries(). Add RedefineClasses() tracing support for obsolete method entry.
Reviewed-by: acorn, swamyv

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

Reviewed-by: jcoomes