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

Laird Nelson ljnelson at gmail.com
Sun Aug 22 02:38:09 UTC 2021


On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 9:49 AM Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:

> JNDI dates from 1997 and came into the JDK in Java SE 1.3.
>

Yes; I remember it well. :-)


> There have been very few API changes since then. There hasn't been any
> significant interest (to my knowledge anyway) in re-investing and
> modernizing the API. No objection to adding an overload with a type token
> but it's only a very small improvement. I suspect it would take a much
> bigger effort to shake off the old/clunky perception.
>

OK; it was worth a shot!

Best,
Laird


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