Due to curiosity, I checked how autobeans are generated. I found it uses sun.misc.ProxyGenerator class to generate autobean proxies and that it uses reflections. But I do not understand, how does it work on client-side. Are those methods that use reflections compiled to javascript? Does it mean that I can use reflections myself on the client?
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Heisenberg
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Proxy instances are only used on the server, in a real JVM, where reflection works. You are correct that GWT code cannot use general reflection.
To generate them on the client, a GWT Generator is used instead. This does all of the reflection while the GWT Compiler is still running, and so is in a real JVM, and creates new classes that implements your autobean interfaces and factories.
The com.google.web.bindery.autobean.gwt.rebind.AutoBeanGenerator class is mostly responsible for this work, and the contents of the com.google.web.bindery.autobean.gwt.rebind.model package (and, to a degree, com.google.web.bindery.autobean.shared) assist in this work.
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Thanks! Checked in debugger autobean implementation classes, they sure do not use proxies on the client! – Heisenberg Aug 12 '15 at 08:48