Reviewed-by: alanb, malenkov, mullan

Summary: add wildcard to unreflectConstructor, various clarifications and minor edits
Reviewed-by: mchung, darcy, 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: add an explicit check for leading "<", upgrade the unit tests
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: Reduce work load and set longer timeout for java/lang/invoke tests.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: chegar, ksrini

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

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>

Summary: add null checks before unsafe calls that take a variable base reference; update unit tests
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: smarks

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

Reviewed-by: never, twisti

7054590: (JSR-292) MethodHandleProxies.asInterfaceInstance() accepts private/protected nested interfaces
Summary: fix non-compliant logic in MethodHandleProxies, fix invalid private classes in MethodHandlesTest
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

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

7044892: JSR 292: API entry points sometimes throw the wrong exceptions or doesn't throw the expected one
Summary: point-fixes for 7038847, 7038860, 7042656, 7042829, 7041853, and several other reports
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Integrate JDK code with JVM-supplied ricochet frames.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

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: JDK changes which run atop the corresponding JVM hook
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Conversion function MethodHandles.asInstance; initial slow implementation based on Proxy.
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs; add MethodHandleProvider.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType to verifier; put in runtime support upcall.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Summary: Remove workaround from MethodHandleImpl lookup code; add JUnit regression test to MethodHandlesTest.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Fill in missing API implementations, fix numerous bugs, adjust APIs towards EG design.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: backport working mlvm regression test to M3 implementation of JSR 292; requires jtreg 4.1
Reviewed-by: twisti