--- a/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/invoke/MethodHandles.java	Wed Apr 27 18:52:32 2016 +0200
+++ b/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/invoke/MethodHandles.java	Wed Apr 27 20:18:49 2016 +0200
@@ -1010,6 +1010,9 @@
          * @throws NullPointerException if any argument is null
          */
         public MethodHandle findConstructor(Class<?> refc, MethodType type) throws NoSuchMethodException, IllegalAccessException {
+            if (refc.isArray()) {
+                throw new NoSuchMethodException("no constructor for array class: " + refc.getName());
+            }
             String name = "<init>";
             MemberName ctor = resolveOrFail(REF_newInvokeSpecial, refc, name, type);
             return getDirectConstructor(refc, ctor);
@@ -2221,6 +2224,27 @@
     }
 
     /**
+     * Produces a method handle constructing arrays of a desired type.
+     * The return type of the method handle will be the array type.
+     * The type of its sole argument will be {@code int}, which specifies the size of the array.
+     * @param arrayClass an array type
+     * @return a method handle which can create arrays of the given type
+     * @throws NullPointerException if the argument is {@code null}
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code arrayClass} is not an array type
+     * @see java.lang.reflect.Array#newInstance(Class, int)
+     * @since 9
+     */
+    public static
+    MethodHandle arrayConstructor(Class<?> arrayClass) throws IllegalArgumentException {
+        if (!arrayClass.isArray()) {
+            throw newIllegalArgumentException("not an array class: " + arrayClass.getName());
+        }
+        MethodHandle ani = MethodHandleImpl.getConstantHandle(MethodHandleImpl.MH_Array_newInstance).
+                bindTo(arrayClass.getComponentType());
+        return ani.asType(ani.type().changeReturnType(arrayClass));
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Produces a method handle giving read access to elements of an array.
      * The type of the method handle will have a return type of the array's
      * element type.  Its first argument will be the array type,