I have looked through the documentation and maybe I missed it, but can someone point me to an example or docs on creating my own custom Proxy class?

We would like to do some custom processing around lazily loading some objects in our model. Is this possible? I am assuming it is. Thanks.

Matt Dowell
Notiva Corp.

This is not possible

Actually this is possible. You would need to:
1) implement a custom implementation of the net.sf.hibernate.proxy.ProxyFactory interface;
2) create a custom persister using the net.sf.hibernate.persister.AbstractEntityPersister class hierarchy and overriding its createProxyFactory() method.