A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
The method javax.rmi.PortableRemote.narrow(Object, Class) should be generified.

JUSTIFICATION :
The narrow method returns an object of the specified Class type. However, the method currently does not works with generics, so tipically client code need to cast the result. Avoiding this is one of the main reasons that generics was introduced in java 5.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
// Ideally, no cast would be necessary.
MyClass x = PortableRemoteObject(ref, MyClass.class);
ACTUAL -
// Actually, a cast is needed here:
MyClass x = (MyClass) PortableRemoteObject(ref, MyClass.class);