Summary: Changes to support invocation of lambda methods compiled either as static interface methods and or private instance methods.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

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

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: jrose, twisti, jdn

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: jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: forax

Reviewed-by: jrose, ahgross

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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>

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes

Reviewed-by: alanb, jdn, jrose

Reviewed-by: chegar, ksrini

Summary: Implement lambda invokedynamic bootstrap by generating at runtime an inner class that implements the functional interface
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Bind callers to caller-sensitive methods.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jjh, vlivanov, ahgross

7194612: api/java_lang/invoke/MethodHandles/Lookup/index.html#ExceptionsTests[findVirtualNSME] fails w/ -esa
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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: Replace internTable with a weak-reference version.
Reviewed-by: sundar, forax, brutisso
Contributed-by: james.laskey@oracle.com

7087658: MethodHandles.Lookup.findVirtual is confused by interface methods that are multiply inherited
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Summary: Base SecurityManager checks on either of Lookup.lookupClass or caller class; also clarify Lookup access checks.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Use correct access token for unreflecting MHs where setAccessible(true)
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: smarks

Reviewed-by: mduigou

Reviewed-by: iveresov, alanb, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: add CountingMethodHandle
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Summary: to use new InternalError constructor with cause chainning
Reviewed-by: alanb, ksrini, xuelei, neugens
Contributed-by: sebastian.sickelmann@gmx.de