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Allows the instance of another ComponentAdapter to be converted into interfacte type, that the instance is not assignable from. In other words the instance of the delegated adapter does NOT necessarily implement the type interface.

For Example:

 public interface Foo {
 int size();
 }
 public class Bar {
 public int size() {
 return 1;
 }
 }
 new Assimilated(Foo.class, new InstanceAdapter(new Bar()));
 

Notice how Bar does not implement the interface Foo. But Bar does have an identical size() method.