Re: [Hibernate] Ohhh this looks cool

[Gavin K. <ga...@ap...>]

> Cglib is brilliant for simply wrapping method calls. As I understand its
> main feature is generating classes dynamically  by merging two classes
that
> were not in any way related at compile time. The generated class looks
like
> a subclass of the original, so you don't need 1000 interfaces as with
> proxies.

And another advantage is that you don't need to break identity equals
the way you do with java.lang.reflect.Proxy. (The Proxy is always a
different object.)

Very, very nice. I wish I knew about this before!