An AbstractConfigProxyFactory is a base class or interface for creating factory classes that return configuration objects(possibly lazily - through a proxy obje

An AbstractConfigProxyFactory is a base class or interface for creating factory classes that return configuration objects(possibly lazily - through a proxy object - in order to avoid unnecessary disk IO or network traffic). Two cases where you might want different factory classes(and hence need a common interface or base) are a factory for 'production' code and a factory that only generates mock objects for unit tests. Having spent 5 minutes trying to understand what this class might do, I disagree with your claim that the name is clear.