Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

Closes #5125 from rxin/core-explicit-type and squashes the following commits:

f471415 [Reynold Xin] Revert style checker changes.
81b66e4 [Reynold Xin] Code review feedback.
a7533e3 [Reynold Xin] Mima excludes.
1d795f5 [Reynold Xin] [SPARK-6428] Added explicit types for all public methods in core.