Summary: Optimise plus/minus for common cases
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: scolebourne@joda.org

Reviewed-by: weijun

Reviewed-by: sla, jbachorik

Summary: Add tests and cleanup existing serialization tests
Reviewed-by: sherman

Summary: Move serialization tests to .serial subpackage
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: paul.rank@oracle.com

Summary: Bridge generation has been removed from the VM. Fix is to remove tests that no longer make sense.
Reviewed-by: ksrini

Summary: Restore invokespecial to lambda metafactory
Reviewed-by: ksrini

Reviewed-by: ksrini

Summary: There's no guarantee that the java process has executed far enough to be found by jps when we try to obtain it's pid.
Reviewed-by: sla

Reviewed-by: alanb

8025538: Unsafe typecast in java.util.stream.SpinedBuffer
8025533: Unsafe typecast in java.util.stream.Streams.RangeIntSpliterator.splitPoint()
8025525: Unsafe typecast in java.util.stream.Node.OfPrimitive.asArray()
Reviewed-by: chegar

Summary: Fix behavior of parameter reflection API for malformed class files.
Reviewed-by: darcy

8014838: getStrongSecureRandom() should require at least one implementation
Reviewed-by: mullan, darcy

Reviewed-by: mchung, jbachorik, sla, sjiang

Reviewed-by: mduigou, chegar

Reviewed-by: peytoia

Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: peytoia

Reviewed-by: weijun, xuelei
Contributed-by: NArtem Smotrakov <artem.smotrakov@oracle.com>

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

Reviewed-by: naoto, mfang

Summary: Fixed issue with type annotation reflection framework that would cause getType of AnnotatedTypes to be null if no annotations were present.
Reviewed-by: darcy, jfranck

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, rbackman
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: lancea, chegar

Reviewed-by: henryjen, chegar, psandoz

Reviewed-by: scolebourne, darcy, mduigou
Contributed-by: NStephen Colebourne <scolebourne@joda.org>

Reviewed-by: joehw, lancea

8024408: Specifications for Collection/List/Set/SortedSet.spliterator() need to document if all the (subclass) instances are required to return SIZED spliterators
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: ksrini, akhil

Reviewed-by: vinnie

Reviewed-by: vinnie

Reviewed-by: xuelei

Reviewed-by: chegar, sla, sspitsyn, mgronlun

Reviewed-by: erikj, mgronlun

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

Reviewed-by: briangoetz, chegar, alanb

Summary: Use only the file name from the supplied prefix for backward compatibility
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar