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 ### External Contributions
 
+*   [#790](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/790): \[java] Added some comments for JDK 9 - [Tobias Weimer](https://github.com/tweimer)
 *   [#830](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/830): \[java] UseArraysAsList: Description added - [Tobias Weimer](https://github.com/tweimer)