6968793: issues with diagnostics Summary: several diagnostic improvements Reviewed-by: jjg

6943278: spurious error message for inference and type-variable with erroneous bound Summary: type-inference should ignore erroneous bounds Reviewed-by: jjg

Merge

6982999: tools must support -target 7 bytecodes Reviewed-by: jjg, jrose

7011272: langtools build.xml should provide a patch target Reviewed-by: jonathan, jjh

6571165: Minor doc bugs in JavaCompiler.java Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

6419926: JSR 199: FileObject.toUri() generates URI without schema (Solaris) Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

6949040: java.dyn package must be compiled with -target 7 or better Summary: issue error (rather than warning) when @PolymorphicSignature is found and target < 7 Reviewed-by: jjg

7007432: Test generic types well-formedness Summary: add a new kind of check (well-formedness of generic type w.r.t. declared bounds) in the type-harness Reviewed-by: jjg

6992698: JSR 292: remove support for transient syntax in polymorphic signature calls Summary: special syntax to denote indy return type through type parameters should be removed (and cast shall be used instead) Reviewed-by: jjg, jrose

7010528: javadoc performance regression Reviewed-by: jjg

6430241: Hard to disable symbol file feature through API Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

6993305: starting position of a method without modifiers and with type parameters is incorrect Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

6396503: javac should not require assertions enabled Reviewed-by: mcimadamore