Is it possible to monkey patch in Java?

Question

I don\'t want to discuss the merits of this approach, just if it is possible. I believe the answer to be \"no\". But maybe someone will surprise me!

Imagine you have

Answer 1

Perhaps you could use Aspect Oriented Programming to trap calls to that function and return your own version instead?

Spring offers some AOP functionality but there are other libraries that do it as well.