src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java

@@ -198,11 +198,12 @@
      * The string is formatted as a list of type modifiers, if any,
      * followed by the kind of type (empty string for primitive types
      * and {@code class}, {@code enum}, {@code interface}, or
      * <code>@</code>{@code interface}, as appropriate), followed
      * by the type's name, followed by an angle-bracketed
-     * comma-separated list of the type's type parameters, if any.
+     * comma-separated list of the type's type parameters, if any,
+     * including informative bounds on the type parameters, if any.
      *
      * A space is used to separate modifiers from one another and to
      * separate any modifiers from the kind of type. The modifiers
      * occur in canonical order. If there are no type parameters, the
      * type parameter list is elided.

@@ -262,11 +263,11 @@
 
             TypeVariable<?>[] typeparms = component.getTypeParameters();
             if (typeparms.length > 0) {
                 StringJoiner sj = new StringJoiner(",", "<", ">");
                 for(TypeVariable<?> typeparm: typeparms) {
-                    sj.add(typeparm.getTypeName());
+                    sj.add(typeVarBounds(typeparm));
                 }
                 sb.append(sj.toString());
             }
 
             for (int i = 0; i < arrayDepth; i++)

@@ -274,10 +275,23 @@
 
             return sb.toString();
         }
     }
 
+    String typeVarBounds(TypeVariable<?> typeVar) {
+        Type[] bounds = typeVar.getBounds();
+        if (bounds.length == 1 && bounds[0].equals(Object.class)) {
+            return typeVar.getName();
+        } else {
+            StringJoiner sj = new StringJoiner(" & ");
+            for (Type bound : bounds) {
+                sj.add(bound.getTypeName());
+            }
+            return typeVar.getName() + " extends " + sj.toString();
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns the {@code Class} object associated with the class or
      * interface with the given string name.  Invoking this method is
      * equivalent to:
      *