[fortress / excalibur] JDK 1.2 dynamic proxies: implementation question,to CGLIB or...

[Neeme Praks]

When implementing dynamic proxies for JDK 1.2, we have two choices:
1. I have cooked up an implementation for generating dynamic proxy classes with BCEL, but it still needs some more work to make it ready for production use.
2. use CGLIB (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cglib). CGLIB has more robust implementation of dynamic proxies with all the support infrastructure (also uses BCEL). Plus, they have some other advanced functionality as well (support for proxying any non-final java class, not just interfaces, Enhancer - intercept all method calls, Delegator - combine any number of objects into one big object and delegate the method calls).

I would personally prefer to use CGLIB. They have Apache license, so the legal issues should not be an obstable.
If we choose to use CGLIB, then I would most probably try to help them out, to test and document their code more.

BTW, does anyone know about the line I would in CGLIB build.xml file?:
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"cglib" was "simplestore" component of the Jakarta Commons Subproject
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Was it really part of Jakarta Commons? Why did it leave?
I would really like to have that project under Apache umbrella, under BCEL or whereever. BCEL doesn't seem to have much of community so it would make sense to move it there, to increase the community (there are currently 4 developers working on CGLIB) and provide some useful implementations on top of BCEL... Or am I just dreaming here...?

bcel-dev seems to be almost dead (and I thought that Avalon had community issues), my speculative proposal to investigate the possibilities for merging these two projects did not receive any response from BCEL developer(s)...

Rgds,
Neeme




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