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: 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

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

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

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: 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

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

Reviewed-by: jrose