8004912: Repeating annotations - getAnnotationsByType(Class<T>) is not working as expected for few inheritance scenarios
8019420: Repeatable non-inheritable annotation types are mishandled by Core Reflection
Reviewed-by: jfranck

Summary: Update getMethods() and getMethod() to filter out interface statics
Reviewed-by: darcy
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com, andreas.lundblad@oracle.com, amy.lu@oracle.com, peter.levart@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: naoto

Reviewed-by: briangoetz, mduigou, mr

Reviewed-by: ksrini, ahgross

8015808: Typo in MethodHandle javadoc
Summary: Fix typos and javadoc markup and extraneous paragraph tags
Reviewed-by: lancea

8022718: Runtime accessibility checking: protected class, if extended, should be accessible from another package
Summary: Modify accessibility check; it was muddled about Java vs JVM protection terminology.
Reviewed-by: jrose

8024704: Improve API documentation of ClassLoader and ServiceLoader with respect to enumeration of resources.
Reviewed-by: alanb, psandoz, mchung

Summary: Add javadoc comments to members of MalformedParametersException
Reviewed-by: darcy

7044282: (reflect) Class.forName and Array.newInstance are inconsistent regarding multidimensional arrays
Reviewed-by: darcy, psandoz

Reviewed-by: plevart, mchung, forax, jjb
Contributed-by: brian.goetz@oracle.com, henry.jen@oracle.com

Summary: Fixed and suppressed compiler warnings on rawtypes
Reviewed-by: vinnie

Summary: add wildcard to unreflectConstructor, various clarifications and minor edits
Reviewed-by: mchung, darcy, twisti

Summary: align CONSTANT_MethodHandle and Lookup.find* API calls, clarify security manager & @CallerSensitive interactions
Reviewed-by: mchung, twisti

Summary: promote an existing private method; make unit tests on all argument positions to arity 10 with mixed types
Reviewed-by: twisti, vlivanov

Summary: Align MH semantic with bytecode behavior of constructor and static member accesses, regarding <clinit> invocation.
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy, abuckley, vlivanov

Summary: add an explicit check for leading "<", upgrade the unit tests
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy

Summary: Document error conditions that may occur when calling a "spreader" method handle.  Use IAE in all cases.
Reviewed-by: twisti, vlivanov

Summary: clarification of erroneous reading of spec. that led to 7194534
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy

Summary: Replicate JVM logic for access control that makes Object.clone appear public when applied to an array type.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: use a per-MH one element cache for MH.asType to speed up MH.invoke; also cache enough MH constants to cache LMF.metafactory
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Restore invokespecial to lambda metafactory
Reviewed-by: ksrini

Summary: Fix behavior of parameter reflection API for malformed class files.
Reviewed-by: darcy

Summary: Inserted code to convert specific exceptions, case-by-case, plus a test.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, rbackman
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Summary: Remove typeAnnotations field from Method, Constructor, and Field, update  Executable and Field to fetch data on demand.
Reviewed-by: darcy, erikj

8022324: j.l.Class.getAnnotatedInterfaces() for array type returns wrong value
8024915: j.l.r.Executable.getAnnotatedReceiverType() should return null for static methods
Summary: Update javadoc and implementation of reflection for type annotations to match latest spec
Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: If the effective floating point exponent is zero return the significand including the implicit 1-bit.
Reviewed-by: bpb, darcy, gls
Contributed-by: NDmitry Nadezhin <dmitry.nadezhin@oracle.com>

Summary: Update javadoc comments on getParameterAnnotations to correctly describe its behavior
Reviewed-by: darcy, jfranck

Summary: Update spec to match long standing behavior
Reviewed-by: darcy, mchung

Reviewed-by: darcy, mchung

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, briangoetz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

8024283: 10 nashorn tests fail with similar stack trace InternalError with cause being NoClassDefFoundError
Summary: Fix pre-existing 292 bug tickled by combo of nashorn code and MethodHandleInfo changes
Reviewed-by: jrose
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: okutsu

8008981: Deprecate SecurityManager checkTopLevelWindow, checkSystemClipboardAccess, checkAwtEventQueueAccess
Reviewed-by: anthony, art, mchung

Reviewed-by: henryjen, alanb

Reviewed-by: jfranck, chegar, psandoz, shade

Reviewed-by: wetmore, alanb
Contributed-by: martinrb@google.com