Reviewed-by: mchung, iris

Reviewed-by: darcy, forax

Reviewed-by: jjg

8008793: SecurityManager.checkXXX behavior not specified for methods that check AWTPermission and AWT not present
Reviewed-by: hawtin, mullan, dsamersoff, mchung

Reviewed-by: jfranck

Reviewed-by: mduigou

Summary: current thread's context ClassLoader was used to load class by name, pass class not name in serialization (Thank you Peter Levart for test and prototype. Thank you Sundar and Peter for unofficial reviews)
Reviewed-by: forax

7087570: java.lang.invoke.MemberName information wrong for method handles created with findConstructor
Summary: REF_invokeSpecial DMHs (which are unusual) get marked explicitly; tweak the MHI to use this bit
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: mduigou, chegar, abuckley

Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: forax

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: mduigou, chegar, alanb

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