semi programmatic approach

[nobel]

Im trying to proxy an object that is not instantiated from the bean factory. So the usual programmtic approach using the ProxyFactory works fine. However I would prefer to use a more declarative approach where I get my ProxyFactoryBean from a configuration file and set the target programmatically. Something like:

    ProxyFactoryBean pfb = (ProxyFactoryBean)lbf.getBean("&proxyBean");
    pfb.setTarget(targetObjectInstantiatedElsewhere)
    TargetObjectClass tac = (TargetObjectClass)pfb.getObject();
    tac.hello(); //test interceptor

<bean id="proxyRequestBean"
  class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean">
  <property name="interceptorNames">
    <list>
	<value>advisorBean_1</value>
	<value>advisorBean_n</value>
    </list>
  </property>
</bean>

As neither an interface nor a target has been supplied declaratively it doesnt work. Should I forget about this semi declarative approach and use the ProxyFactory or is there something I've missed? Using Spring 1.2.7. Cheers Niklas.

[Jörg Heinicke]

What happens if you declare the bean as abstract. Maybe this enables the access to the FactoryBean without creating a bean since they don't get instantiated.

Joerg