Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bchristi, alanb, lancea

Reviewed-by: darcy

Summary: to undo the change for 6559590
Reviewed-by: darcy

8028021: @since 1.8 missing for certain methods in java.lang.reflect.Method in generated api docs
Summary: two documentation fixes
Reviewed-by: darcy

6559590: Pattern.compile(".*").split("") returns incorrect result
Summary: updated spec/impl for these two corner cases
Reviewed-by: alanb, psandoz

Reviewed-by: chegar, forax, lancea, alanb, jfranck

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Replaced incorrect description with reference to the serialization specification
Reviewed-by: alanb, smarks

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, mr, plevart, psandoz

8027232: Update j.l.invoke code generating class files to use ASM enhancements for invocation of non-abstract methods on ifaces
Reviewed-by: ksrini, rfield
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com

Summary: Better interpreted and compiled performance of operations in MethodType important to LambdaMetafactory.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, mchung
Contributed-by: sergey.kuksenko@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: briangoetz, rfield
Contributed-by: sergey.kuksenko@oracle.com

8023984: Lambda linkage performance - use a method ref to a static factory instead of a ctor ref
Reviewed-by: briangoetz, rfield
Contributed-by: sergey.kuksenko@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jfranck, plevart, mchung, abuckley, sogoel

8027318: Lambda Metafactory: generate serialization-hostile read/writeObject methods for non-serializable lambdas
Reviewed-by: rfield, psandoz

Reviewed-by: alexsch, smarks

Reviewed-by: iveresov, jrose

8023651: j.l.r.Constructor.getAnnotatedReceiverType() and j.l.r.Constructor.getAnnotatedReturnType() for inner classes return incorrect result
Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: briangoetz, rfield
Contributed-by: dan.smith@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jfranck
Contributed-by: andreas.lundblad@oracle.com, peter.levart@gmail.com

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

Summary: Wildcard marker interfaces can cause duplicate implemented interfaces in generated lambda class
Reviewed-by: briangoetz

8024179: Document limitations and performance characteristics of stream sources and operations
8024138: (Spec clarification) Lambda Metafacory spec should state DMH constraint on implMethod
Reviewed-by: mduigou
Contributed-by: brian.goetz@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com

Summary: Cleanup of javadoc -Xlint errors
Reviewed-by: lancea, mduigou, darcy, mullan, mchung

Reviewed-by: chegar, forax, alanb, mduigou

Summary: Added test for IllegalAccessException -> IllegalAccessError path to check if root cause was AbstractMethodError
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