Reviewed-by: alanb, mchung, darcy, jrose, ahgross, skoivu

Reviewed-by: alanb, ahgross

Reviewed-by: chegar, jfranck

Reviewed-by: shade

Reviewed-by: mduigou

8004919: AnnotationSupport uses possibly half-constructed AnnotationType instances
Summary: Implements the simplified semantics for repeating annotations and removes the incorrect obtaining of an AnnotationType
Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Reviewed-by: darcy

Summary: Add blanket null-handling statement to StringBuilder and StringBuffer
Reviewed-by: mduigou

Reviewed-by: darcy, mduigou, briangoetz, dholmes
Contributed-by: akhil.arora@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: sla, dcubed, mchung

Reviewed-by: briangoetz

Reviewed-by: darcy, forax, psandoz, dholmes, tbell

Reviewed-by: shade, chegar

Summary: Moved the fields for cached reflection objects into a seperate ReflectionData object to reduce dynamic footprint.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mchung, shade
Contributed-by: NPeter Levart <peter.levart@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: alanb, tbell, ohair
Contributed-by: fredrik.ohrstrom@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: abuckley

Reviewed-by: darcy, mchung
Contributed-by: brian.burkhalter@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: mduigou

Summary: use a common javadoc style in the String classes
Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: mduigou

Reviewed-by: darcy, dholmes
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: alanb, forax, mduigou, jgish, mchung

Reviewed-by: mduigou, forax, dl, chegar, briangoetz

Summary: Lambda implementing inner classes now has private constructor (thanks Kumar)
Reviewed-by: ksrini

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti
Contributed-by: NDavid Chase <david.r.chase@oracle.com>

Summary: It is not necessary to extract the value array with toCharArray. The value array can now be used directly.
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: weijun, xuelei

Summary: Adds a constant BYTES to each of the primitive wrapper classes (Byte, Character, Double, Float, Integer, Long, Short) with the calculation Primitive.SIZE / Byte.SIZE already made.
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Adds static utility methods to each primitive wrapper class to allow calculation of a hashCode value from an unboxed primitive.
Reviewed-by: darcy, smarks, dholmes

Summary: added the requested methods
Reviewed-by: darcy, emcmanus, alanb
Contributed-by: roger.riggs@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: okutsu

Reviewed-by: alanb, jdn, jrose

Reviewed-by: chegar, ksrini

Summary: update StringBuilder & StringBuffer to consistently handle forwarding to AbstractStringBuilder. Some additional cleanup (removal of refs to sub-classes from AbstractStringBuilder)
Reviewed-by: chegar, alanb, mduigou