hello,

I would like to use the @PostLoad annotation on a method
so that this method is called after a class is loaded
from persistence (to initialize fields that have been added
and thus are null).

Unfortunately, when I annotate a method (in class Project) with @PostLoad:

@PostLoad
public void debug() {
System.exit(1);
}
this method never gets called (the application doesn't exit).

My application uses a dynamic AnnotationConfiguration, so that
each project gets its own HSQLDB-Database in projects/<name>/projectdb.*:

public static SessionFactory createSessionFactory(String project_name) {
String dbfile = String.format("%s/projectdb", getPath(project_name).getPath());
return new AnnotationConfiguration().configure(new File("hibernate.cfg.xml"))
.setProperty("hibernate.connection.url", String.format("jdbc:hsqldb:file:%s;shutdown=true", dbfile))
.buildSessionFactory();
}

A project is persisted like this:
Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
session.saveOrUpdate(prj);
tx.commit();

The session is opened once per Project for the entire Application lifetime
(possible because this is a desktop application - no concurrent accesses).

Do I need to debug hibernate on source-level or does someone
have another idea on what I could try?

Thanks in advance!

hello,

I think the problem is that I am using AnnotationConfiguration instead of JPA's EntityManager.
Are there hibernate- (as opposed to JPA-) specific life cycle callback annotations that
I could use?

Thanks!