8176265: Method overload resolution on a covariant base type doesn't work in 9
Summary: Some type mappings should not be recursive
Reviewed-by: vromero, jlahoda

8171371: Remove redundant type-arguments from generic method calls
Reviewed-by: jjg, rfield, mchung

8181370: Convert anonymous inner classes into lambdas/method references
Reviewed-by: jjg, rfield, mchung

8075793: Source incompatibility for inference using -source 7
Summary: In pre-8 sources, avoid capture variables as inference bounds, consistent with old javac behavior
Reviewed-by: vromero, mcimadamore

8170410: inference: javac doesn't implement 18.2.5 correctly
Summary: javac does not generate constraints of the kind 'throws alpha' as described in the spec
Reviewed-by: vromero, dlsmith

8154956: Module system implementation refresh (4/2016)
Reviewed-by: jjg, mchung, alanb
Contributed-by: jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, jan.lahoda@oracle.com

8152832: Type inference regression in javac
Summary: Stale incoropration actions caused missing inference bounds
Reviewed-by: vromero

8142968: Module System implementation
Summary: Initial integration of JEP 200, JEP 260, JEP 261, and JEP 282
Reviewed-by: jjg, jlahoda, vromero, mcimadamore, bpatel, ksrini, darcy, anazarov, dfuchs
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, jan.lahoda@oracle.com, vicente.romero@oracle.com, andreas.lundblad@oracle.com, andrey.x.nazarov@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com, sundararajan.athijegannathan@oracle.com

8144580: java.lang.AssertionError: Missing type variable in where clause: T
Summary: Type variable comparisons should ignore type annotations.
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

8067767: type inference performance regression
Summary: Overhaul implememntation of inference incorporation
Reviewed-by: vromero

8141343: Subtle semantics changes for union types in cast conversion
Summary: cast applied to union types do not behave correctly and sometimes pass erroneously
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8138840: NPE when compiling bitwise operations with illegal operand types
8139243: compiler crashes with exception on sum operation of String var and void method call result
8139249: Compiler crashes on unary bitwise complement with non-integral operand
Summary: Certain binary operator checks are accepting more operands than required.
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8078600: Infinite loop when compiling annotations with -XDcompletionDeps
Summary: Added Completer::isTerminal and added NULL_COMPLETER.
Reviewed-by: jlahoda, mcimadamore

8068737: ArrayType prints element type post order
Summary: Rewrote ArrayType.toString
Reviewed-by: jlahoda, ksrini

8031744: Annotations on many Language Model elements are not returned
Reviewed-by: jfranck, mcimadamore, emc, jlahoda, jjg
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com, maurizio.cimadamore@oracle.com

8074100: Turn Type.Mapping into a true visitor
Summary: replace Type.Mapping with a true visitor in Types
Reviewed-by: jlahoda, vromero

8071291: Compiler crashes trying to cast UnionType to IntersectionClassType
Summary: Compiler tests for .isCompound but then cast to a more specific Type subclass, resulting in CCE
Reviewed-by: vromero, jlahoda

8054457: Refactor Symbol kinds from small ints to an enum
Summary: Replace bitmap logic in symbol.kind and pkind with an enum-based API
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, jjg

8048614: Add TypeMetadata to contain type annotations and other type information
Summary: Implement general framework for metadata on types
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

8056061: Mark implementations of public interfaces with an annotation
Summary: Adding @DefinedBy annotation to mark methods that implement public API methods; annotating the methods; adding a coding rules analyzer to enforce all such methods are annotated.
Reviewed-by: jjg, mcimadamore, jfranck
Contributed-by: jan.lahoda@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com

8054834: Modular Source Code
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, ihse, mduigou
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com