Review request JDK-8004729: Parameter Reflection API

[Eric McCorkle]

Hello,

Please review the core reflection API implementation of parameter
reflection.  This is the final component of method parameter reflection.
 This was posted for review before, then delayed until the check-in for
JDK-8004728 (hotspot support for parameter reflection), which occurred
yesterday.

Note: The check-in of JDK-8004728 was into hsx/hotspot-rt, *not*
jdk8/tl; therefore, it may be a while before the changeset makes its way
into jdk8/tl.

Also note: since the check-in of JDK-8004727 (javac support for
parameter reflection), there has been a failure in the tests for
Pack200.  This is being addressed in a fix contributed by Kumar, which I
believe has also been posted for review.

The open webrev is here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/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