I am writing an Interceptor that needs the PersistentClass information of entities. Event listeners get access to Configuration information by implementing org.hibernate.event.Initializable. There doesn't appear to be a clean way to make this information available to an Interceptor.

I modified my Interceptor to also be an initializable Listener for an infrequent event:
implements Initializable, PreDeleteEventListener

After configuring it in the application's applicationContext.xml as both an interceptor and a listener:
<bean id="auditInterceptor" class="com.med.cdc.interceptor.ChangeInterceptor"/>

<bean id="eventListener" class="com.med.cdc.interceptor.ChangeInterceptor"/>

<bean id="hibernateSessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean"
destroy-method="destroy">

<property name="eventListeners">
<map>
<entry key="pre-delete"><ref local="eventListener" /></entry>
</map>
</property>
...
</bean>

<bean id="hibernateTransactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernateSessionFactory"/>
<property name="entityInterceptorBeanName" value="auditInterceptor" />
</bean>

it is getting the Configuration information it needs.

Is there a better way for an Interceptor to get access to Configuration information?