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

Only suggestions I can think of:

1. Dig through the library API to see if there's some way of overriding the defaults and sizing. Sizing can be confusing in swing (at least to me) , setMinimum, setMaximum, setdefault, setDefaultOnThursday, ... . It's possible there's a way. If you can contact the library designer(s) you might find an answer that will alleviate the need for unpleasant hacking.

2. Perhaps extend the factory only overriding some default sizing parameter? depends on the factory but it might be possible.

Creating a class with the same name might be the only other option, as others have pointed out it's ugly and you're liable to forget it and break stuff when you update the api library or deploy in a different environment and forget why you had the classpath set up that way.