Review request:Updated JDK-8004728 Implement core reflection API for parameter reflection

[Eric McCorkle]

Hello,

Please review the implementation of the core reflection API for method
parameter reflection.  This changeset introduces a new class, Parameter,
which represents information about method parameters.  It introduces a
new method into Executable which returns an array of the parameters for
the method or constructor represented by the Executable.

This is part of a larger set of changes which implement portions of the
method parameter reflection functionality in hotspot and javac.


The open webrev is here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jgish/~emccorkl/webrev/JDK-8004729/


The feature request is here:
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8004729


The latest version of the spec can be found here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~abuckley/8misc.pdf

Thanks,
Eric