Hi,

is there a way to intercept the creation of my persistent domain objects ? I'd like to be able to set some (nonpersistent) properties as soon as a new instance has been created by hibernate (aka : setter based injection).

How about a custom implementation of Interceptor.instantiate()

thanks steve, that's what I was looking for!

Have your class implement net.sf.hibernate.Lifecycle

yes, this seems to work as well. But since I dont want to make my domain classes dependent on hibernate (and because some of our domain class are not under our projects control) I cant do that :( .

Lifecycle is defintely not a good choice in any case (although other ORM solutions still heavily recommend these intrusive interfaces).