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    The google group thread was very valuable. My understanding is for java-interop proxy, gen-class are supplanted by reify and deftype mostly. I am glad that we have fewer 'recommended' ways to define types now. Commented Aug 22, 2011 at 4:06
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    @Trylks : The ability to treat the object as a sequence of key-value pairs. Pretty much everything that's native to clojure can be treated as a sequence, which is very powerful. Commented May 10, 2015 at 17:14
  • proxy is sometimes preferred because it allows modification of methods at runtime. (e.g. The Joy of Clojure, 2nd ed. suggests this might be handy for modifying callbacks in a web handler.) Commented May 26, 2015 at 23:20