I created a custom value type in Hibernate that extends the org.hibernate.usertype.UserType class. When I perform a reexplode the custom type gets executed and performs the nullSafeGet and nullSafeSet without problem.

However, when I perform a restart on my application these methods never get executed.
Even though the start up says it is bound:
14:22:22,194 INFO [AnnotationBinder] Binding type definition: secretEncryptedString

Any ideas what could be causing this or what I can do to track down whats happening?