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

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

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

Reviewed-by: darcy, mchung

Reviewed-by: jfranck, chegar, psandoz, shade

Reviewed-by: darcy, vromero, psandoz

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: mchung, ahgross, darcy

Reviewed-by: dholmes, jfranck

Reviewed-by: jrose, alanb, dfuchs

Summary: cache more reflective data and lookup results.
Reviewed-by: alanb, plevart, psandoz, dl
Contributed-by: NDoug Lea &lt;dl@cs.oswego.edu&gt;, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

Summary: setProtectionDomain0 and JVM_SetProtectionDomain are unused since at least 1.5.  This is the JDK side of a changeset to remove it.
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: abuckley, jfranck

Reviewed-by: darcy, mchung, ahgross

Reviewed-by: ahgross, alanb

Reviewed-by: jrose, alanb, twisti

Summary: Better checking in getEnclosing(Method|Constructor|Class)
Reviewed-by: darcy, ahgross, mchung

6992705: Include modifiers in Class.toGenericString()
Summary: Class.toGenericString and supporting changes; additional reviews by Peter Levart
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: jjg

Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Reviewed-by: chegar, jfranck

8004919: AnnotationSupport uses possibly half-constructed AnnotationType instances
Summary: Implements the simplified semantics for repeating annotations and removes the incorrect obtaining of an AnnotationType
Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Reviewed-by: darcy

Summary: Moved the fields for cached reflection objects into a seperate ReflectionData object to reduce dynamic footprint.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mchung, shade
Contributed-by: NPeter Levart <peter.levart@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: mduigou

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: alanb, jdn, jrose

Reviewed-by: chegar, ksrini

Reviewed-by: lancea, darcy, ulfzibis, iris, naoto, dholmes

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, dsamersoff, sspitsyn, psandoz

Summary: Implement ClassValue cooperatively with Class like ThreadLocal with Thread.
Reviewed-by: twisti, mduigou

Reviewed-by: smarks, dholmes, alanb, darcy

Reviewed-by: alanb, darcy
Contributed-by: NMartin Desruisseaux <martin.desruisseaux@geomatys.fr>

Summary: to use new InternalError constructor with cause chainning
Reviewed-by: alanb, ksrini, xuelei, neugens
Contributed-by: sebastian.sickelmann@gmx.de

Reviewed-by: dholmes, lancea, forax

Reviewed-by: alanb, darcy

7032960: API files in java.awt need to be updated for references to JVM Spec with editions/hyperlinks
7032965: API files in java.io need to updated for references to JVM Spec with editions/hyperlinks
7032958: API files in java.lang need to updated for references to JLS with editions/hyperlinks
7032961: API files in java.lang need to updated for references to JVM with editions/hyperlinks
7032976: API files in javax.lang need to be updated for references to JLS with editions/hyperlinks
7032959: API files in java.util need to updated for references to JLS with editions/hyperlinks
7032962: API files in java.util need to updated for references to JVM Spec with editions/hyperlinks
7032967: API files in java.security need to updated for references to JVM Spec with editions/hyperlinks
7032955: API files in java.math need to updated for references to JLS with editions/hyperlinks
Summary: Removed URLs and 'edition' references
Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: dholmes