Efficient proxies in Smalltalk
Mariano Martinez Peck, Noury Bouraqadi, Marcus Denker, Sté́phane Ducasse, Luc Fabresse · 2011
A proxy object is a surrogate or placeholder that controls access to another target object. Proxy objects are a widely used solution for different scenarios such as remote method invocation, future objects, behavioral reflection, object databases, inter-languages communications and bindings, access control, lazy or parallel evaluation, security, among others.