Paul Holser, a fellow ThoughtWorks alum, wrote a nice library for handling properties, property-binder. More to the point, it is an example of PICA style (proxied interfaces configured with annotations), something Paul wrote about recently.
property-binder works using dynamic proxies to turn one kind of call (a typed API) into another (lookups of properties). This is elegantly done.
An alternative for situations where proxies are not appropriate is to use the code-generation facility of annotations, to write Java code for the conversion. The user of annotations cannot tell the difference: the same annotations, interfaces and static factory methods appear in both cases.
This is an interesting corner of Java, bringing together several advanced features but leaving them accessible to the caller with elementary techniques.
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