This is a followup RFE for discussion items brought up in the Java SE 6 spec review. In order to take advantage of the ResouceBundle enhancements in 6, the current design requires all invocations of the getBundle factory method to be updated to include the ResourceBundle control. The migration effort for applications will be non-trivial, which makes it more difficult to be adopted.

It would be more useful to be able to bind a given ResourceBundle control to a set of ResourceBundles by specifying a binding scope such that all getBundle calls within this scope will inherit the behavior.