8022701: Accessibility checking: InvocationTargetException is thrown instead of IllegalAccessError Summary: Inserted code to convert specific exceptions, case-by-case, plus a test. Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

8025342: NLS: unsupported translation format in jar/pack/DriverResource.java Reviewed-by: naoto, mfang

8021398: j.l.r.Parameter.getAnnotatedType().getType() for not annotated use of type returns null Summary: Fixed issue with type annotation reflection framework that would cause getType of AnnotatedTypes to be null if no annotations were present. Reviewed-by: darcy, jfranck

8024616: JSR292: lazily initialize core NamedFunctions used for bootstrapping Reviewed-by: jrose

8001107: @Stable annotation for constant folding of lazily evaluated variables Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, rbackman Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

8025686: Update jdk repo netbeans projects to support NetBeans 7.4 for Java 8 support Reviewed-by: lancea, chegar

8025067: Unconditionally throw NPE if null op provided to Arrays.parallelPrefix Reviewed-by: henryjen, chegar, psandoz

7057785: Add note about optional support of recursive methods for self-referential Collection/Map Reviewed-by: scolebourne, darcy, mduigou Contributed-by: Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne@joda.org>

8024707: TransformerException : item() return null with node list of length != 1 Reviewed-by: joehw, lancea

8024408: Specifications for Collection/List/Set/SortedSet.spliterator() need to document if all the (subclass) instances are required to return SIZED spliterators Reviewed-by: alanb