To clarify, is it possible to use dynamic proxies instead of beans or the code generated proxies? From what I can tell by looking at the code this can't be done presently. It is a pretty small change to make it possible tho. I made some changes and tested at my site without any trouble.

I want to make sure there isn't already another way of accomplishing this that I missed and also whether there is some good philosphical argument against.

We'd really like the ability to do this in my project.

The design of Hibernate accommodates this, but we don't expose this capability to the user.