Have you ever developed code that uses java.lang.reflect.Proxy and thought:

"That CGLIB library sure is cool. I wish I could leverage both standard proxies and CGLIB proxies without changing my code".

With ProxyToys you can! ProxyToys is to proxy generation what Jakarta Commons Logging is to logging - an thin implementation neutral API for Proxy creation. Whether to use standard proxies or CGLIB is a one-line code change.

Features

API Compatible proxy factory providers:

• Standard proxies of the JDK
• CGLIB implementation

ProxyToys provides a collection of toys acting as factories for creating " special" proxies such as:

• Decorators - for simple AOP-like chained method interception
• Delegates - for method invocation on a delegate object, that might have different type
• Dispatcher proxy - single proxy instance dispatching method calls to different object with separate types
• Echo proxy - for tracing method calls
• Failover objects - fails over to a next object in case of exception
• Hot swapping proxy - allows implementation hiding that can be swapped, and mutual dependencies
• Multicasting objects - for multicasting a method invocation to multiple objects
• Null objects - for default implementations of classes that do nothing at all
• Pool - for a pool implemntation with proxied objects that return automatically to the pool