Frederic and I have worked on a set of proposals for ValueTypes consistency
checking.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~acorn/value-types-consistency-checking-details.pdf
The first part contains the proposal.
The second walks through details of the consistency checking in the case of a
value type
Following some extensive discussion on the JEP-181 CSR, Alex proposed a
number of changes to the way we described nests and the new nest related
methods in java.lang.Class. There is no normative change to the new
reflection API that was added, just a change in how things are presented
and