Reviewed-by: martin, alanb, chegar, plevart

Reviewed-by: martin, alanb, ulfzibis, mduigou
Contributed-by: NStuart Marks &lt;stuart.marks@oracle.com&gt;, Henry Jen <henry.jen@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: mchung

Reviewed-by: mduigou, alanb, chegar, darcy
Contributed-by: NPaul Sandoz &lt;paul.sandoz@oracle.com&gt;, Brian Goetz &lt;brian.goetz@oracle.com&gt;, Doug Lea <dl@cs.oswego.edu>

Reviewed-by: alanb, jrose, jdn

Reviewed-by: jrose, alanb, twisti

8011805: Update sun.tools.java class file reading/writing support to include the new constant pool entries
Reviewed-by: mduigou, alanb

8008941: isSynthetic() returns false for lambda instances
Reviewed-by: mduigou

Reviewed-by: smarks

6992705: Include modifiers in Class.toGenericString()
Summary: Class.toGenericString and supporting changes; additional reviews by Peter Levart
Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Append 4 chars instead of the string "null"
Reviewed-by: mduigou, forax, jgish

Reviewed-by: mduigou

7172553: A utility class that forms the basis of a String.join() operation
Summary: Integrate StringJoiner changes from lambda
Reviewed-by: alanb, mduigou

Summary: Correct some errors in the javadoc comments for parameter reflection.
Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes

Summary: Fix and optimize codePointAt, codePointBefore and similar methods
Reviewed-by: sherman, okutsu, ulfzibis, kizune

Reviewed-by: acorn, dlsmith

Reviewed-by: dlong, alanb, mduigou
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@oracle.com, bob.vandette@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: mchung, iris

Reviewed-by: darcy, forax

8009222: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: not invocable, no method type when attempting to get getter method handle for a static field
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jjg

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, jdn

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

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

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: forax

Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: mduigou, chegar, alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb, ahgross

Reviewed-by: chegar, jfranck

Reviewed-by: shade