Process for adding default method to javax.naming.Context?

[Laird Nelson]

Hello; I am new to this mailing list and its conventions; if I misstep I am
happy to be pointed in the right direction. Disclaimer in case it matters:
I work for Oracle on project Helidon.

I would like to understand how to request an enhancement to the
javax.naming.Context interface.  A prior discussion on this subject from
many years ago can be found here:
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-October/044137.html

To recap in brief: being able to do:

  Frob frob = someNamingContext.lookup("frob", Frob.class);

would be very convenient, e.g. via something like:

  // Proposed new default method in javax.naming.Context
  default <T> T lookup(Name name, Class<T> type) {
    return type.cast(lookup(name)); // just delegate to the existing
lookup() method
  }

Should I simply file an RFE in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/ or should I
first further discuss the idea here?

The contribution guide (https://openjdk.java.net/contribute/) seemed to
suggest starting with a discussion on the list when an RFE doesn't already
exist, but to be honest there's not much more to the idea than this at the
moment.

Best,
Laird