diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/AccessibleObject.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/AccessibleObject.java
index a3346b8c3f8..3cd583b31d8 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/AccessibleObject.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/AccessibleObject.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -497,6 +497,7 @@ public class AccessibleObject implements AnnotatedElement {
     /**
      * Constructor: only used by the Java Virtual Machine.
      */
+    @Deprecated(since="17")
     protected AccessibleObject() {}
 
     // Indicates whether language-level access checks are overridden
@@ -520,12 +521,16 @@ public class AccessibleObject implements AnnotatedElement {
      * <p> Note that any annotation returned by this method is a
      * declaration annotation.
      *
+     * @implSpec
+     * The default implementation throws {@link
+     * UnsupportedOperationException}; subclasses should override this method.
+     *
      * @throws NullPointerException {@inheritDoc}
      * @since 1.5
      */
     @Override
     public <T extends Annotation> T getAnnotation(Class<T> annotationClass) {
-        throw new AssertionError("All subclasses should override this method");
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("All subclasses should override this method");
     }
 
     /**
@@ -545,12 +550,16 @@ public class AccessibleObject implements AnnotatedElement {
      * <p> Note that any annotations returned by this method are
      * declaration annotations.
      *
+     * @implSpec
+     * The default implementation throws {@link
+     * UnsupportedOperationException}; subclasses should override this method.
+     *
      * @throws NullPointerException {@inheritDoc}
      * @since 1.8
      */
     @Override
     public <T extends Annotation> T[] getAnnotationsByType(Class<T> annotationClass) {
-        throw new AssertionError("All subclasses should override this method");
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("All subclasses should override this method");
     }
 
     /**
@@ -606,11 +615,15 @@ public class AccessibleObject implements AnnotatedElement {
      * <p> Note that any annotations returned by this method are
      * declaration annotations.
      *
+     * @implSpec
+     * The default implementation throws {@link
+     * UnsupportedOperationException}; subclasses should override this method.
+     *
      * @since 1.5
      */
     @Override
     public Annotation[] getDeclaredAnnotations()  {
-        throw new AssertionError("All subclasses should override this method");
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("All subclasses should override this method");
     }
 
     // Shared access checking logic.
diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Executable.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Executable.java
index ad399cb86d9..d86a454c751 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Executable.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Executable.java
@@ -47,11 +47,12 @@ import sun.reflect.generics.repository.ConstructorRepository;
  *
  * @since 1.8
  */
-public abstract class Executable extends AccessibleObject
-    implements Member, GenericDeclaration {
+public abstract sealed class Executable extends AccessibleObject
+    implements Member, GenericDeclaration permits Constructor, Method {
     /*
      * Only grant package-visibility to the constructor.
      */
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
     Executable() {}
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Field.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Field.java
index 3513fb676ba..9cbca96942f 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Field.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Field.java
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ class Field extends AccessibleObject implements Member {
     /**
      * Package-private constructor
      */
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
     Field(Class<?> declaringClass,
           String name,
           Class<?> type,