package com.chosen0ne.agent.test; 
 
import java.lang.annotation.Retention; 
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy; 
 
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) 
public @interface ToString { 
} 

package com.chosen0ne.agent.test; 
 
@ToString 
public class Foo { 
 
} 

package com.chosen0ne.agent.test; 
 
public class Main { 
 public static void main(String[] args) { 
  Foo foo = new Foo(); 
  System.out.println(foo.toString()); 
 } 
} 

com.chosen0ne.agent.test.Foo@7852e922

public static void premain(String agentArgs, Instrumentation inst); 

package com.chosen0ne.ByteCode.agent; 
 
import java.lang.instrument.Instrumentation; 
 
import com.chosen0ne.agent.test.ToString; 
 
import net.bytebuddy.agent.builder.AgentBuilder; 
import net.bytebuddy.description.type.TypeDescription; 
import net.bytebuddy.dynamic.DynamicType.Builder; 
import net.bytebuddy.implementation.FixedValue; 
import net.bytebuddy.matcher.ElementMatchers; 
 
public class ToStringAgent { 
 
 public static void premain(String args, Instrumentation instrumentation) { 
  System.out.println("print pre main"); 
  new AgentBuilder.Default() 
    .type(ElementMatchers.isAnnotatedWith(ToString.class)) 
    .transform(new AgentBuilder.Transformer() { 
 
     @Override 
     public Builder<?> transform(Builder<?> builder, 
       TypeDescription typeDescription, ClassLoader classLoader) { 
      return builder.method(ElementMatchers.named("toString")) 
        .intercept(FixedValue.value("test")); 
     } 
      
    }).installOn(instrumentation); 
 } 
} 

jar cvfm agent.jar MANIFEST.MF -C . com lib 

<build> 
 <plugins>  
  <plugin> 
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> 
   <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> 
   <version>2.1</version> 
   <configuration> 
    <archive> 
     <manifest> 
      <addClasspath>true</addClasspath> 
      <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix> 
      <mainClass>com.chosen0ne.ByteCode.ByteBuddyTest</mainClass> 
     </manifest> 
     <manifestEntries> 
      <Premain-Class>com.chosen0ne.ByteCode.agent.ToStringAgent</Premain-Class> 
     </manifestEntries> 
    </archive> 
   </configuration> 
  </plugin> 
 </plugins> 
</build> 

. 
├── agent.jar 
├── classes 
│ └── com 
│  └── chosen0ne 
│   └── agent 
│    └── test 
│     ├── Foo.class 
│     ├── Main.class 
│     └── ToString.class 
└── lib 
 └── byte-buddy-1.2.3.jar 

java -cp classes:lib/byte-buddy-1.2.3.jar -javaagent:agent.jar com.chosen0ne.agent.test.Main 

print pre main 
test 

> java -cp classes:lib/byte-buddy-1.2.3.jar -javaagent:agent.jar -jar agent-test-case-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/bytebuddy/matcher/ElementMatcher 
 at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) 
 at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2688) 
 at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethod(Class.java:2115) 
 at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndStartAgent(InstrumentationImpl.java:327) 
 at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndCallPremain(InstrumentationImpl.java:401) 
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.bytebuddy.matcher.ElementMatcher 
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:372) 
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361) 
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) 
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:360) 
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) 
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) 
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) 
 ... 5 more 
FATAL ERROR in native method: processing of -javaagent failed