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

Reviewed-by: mduigou, alanb
Contributed-by: NMani Sarkar <sadhak001@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: chegar, ksrini

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, mhaupt, forax
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: smarks

Summary: Enhancements to unit tests.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

7051206: JSR 292 method name SwitchPoint.isValid is misleading to unwary users; should be hasBeenInvalidated
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, ysr

Summary: API code changes and javadoc changes following JSR 292 Public Review comments, through PFD
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: rename invokeGeneric to invoke
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: JVM bug 6817525 requires changes to some JDK unit tests; update test invocation flags and "Indify" snapshot
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes; add @since tags; no code changes
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: remove NoAccessException, replace it by ReflectiveOperationException subtypes; adjust javadoc of exceptions
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: misc. EG changes and polishes (excluding 7013417)
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Implement MH.asVarargsCollector, etc., and remove withTypeHandler.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti

6979327: method handle invocation should use casts instead of type parameters to specify return type
Summary: Change result type parameters to result type casts.  (Also, replace private placeholder class InvokeDynamic.)
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Make NoAccessException be a checked exception.  Also remove JavaMethodHandle.
Reviewed-by: twisti