RFR: 8370839: Tests to verify peculiar Proxy dispatching behaviors [v5]

[Jorn Vernee]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:14:28 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> java.lang.reflect.Proxy has some surprising behaviors associated with protected methods in Object, covariant/contravariant overrides in interfaces, and package-private types in method signatures. Such behaviors should have tests, so that they are not accidentally perturbed in Proxy updates.
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> Chen Liang has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains nine additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Better comments
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into test/proxy-dispatches
>  - Update test/jdk/java/lang/reflect/Proxy/BridgeMethodsTest.java
>  - Consolidate duplicate tests
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into test/proxy-dispatches
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into test/proxy-dispatches
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into test/proxy-dispatches
>  - Tweaks
>  - 8370839: Tests to verify peculiar Proxy dispatching behaviors

Thanks for the updates!

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Marked as reviewed by jvernee (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28023#pullrequestreview-3456817978