8028055: (reflect) invoking Method/Constructor in anonymous classes breaks with -Dsun.reflect.noInflation=true
Reviewed-by: briangoetz

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: alanb, malenkov, mullan

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: RuntimeMXBean.getUptime() should be based on HR timers rather than on the OS time
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

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

6944188: ThreadMXBean/ThreadStateTest.java fails intermittently
Reviewed-by: dholmes, chegar

Summary: Moved DefaultMethodModeling.java to its own directory to avoid conflicts with Equals.java.
Reviewed-by: darcy

8027681: Lambda serialization fails once reflection proxy generation kicks in
Reviewed-by: ksrini, briangoetz, jfranck
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com, brian.goetz@oracle.com, robert.field@oracle.com

Summary: Make the test less stringent by not requiring the number of loaded classes to increase by a specific number
Reviewed-by: sla

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

Reviewed-by: mchung, brutisso

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

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

Reviewed-by: psandoz, martin, alanb, robm

Reviewed-by: vinnie

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

8026789: Update test/java/lang/instrument/Re(transform|define)BigClass.sh test to use NMT for memory leak detection
Reviewed-by: dcubed

7112404: 2 tests in java/lang/management/ManagementFactory fails with G1 because expect non-zero pools
Reviewed-by: mchung, sjiang

Reviewed-by: chegar, coffeys, smarks, mullan
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oralce.com, mark.sheppard@oracle.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

Summary: Redefined class in stack trace may not be found by method_idnum so handle null.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: naoto

Reviewed-by: sla, mchung

8024660: TEST_BUG: java/lang/ProcessBuilder/*IOHandle.java leaving hotspot.log open in fastdebug builds
Reviewed-by: alanb
Contributed-by: pavel.punegov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, coleen.phillimore@oracle.com

8026362: java/lang/invoke/lambda/LogGeneratedClassesTest.java failed on windows, jtreg report Fail to org.testng.SkipException
Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: forax, psandoz, dholmes, jfranck
Contributed-by: karen.kinnear@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: build hooks to allow closed restricted packages to be added to java.security file
Reviewed-by: erikj, dholmes, tbell

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: 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