Java Design Patterns: A Hands-On Experience with Real-World Examples

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8. Proxy Pattern

Vaskaran Sarcar¹  

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Garia, Kolkata, India

 

This chapter covers the Proxy pattern.

GoF Definition

It provides a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access to it.

Concept

There are situations where you want to restrict direct communication between an intended object and the outside world. There are various reasons for this. For example, you may be promoting additional securities, you need to improve the response time, you may have some resource constraints, or the final product is still in the development phase.

Proxies can be of different types, but fundamentally ...