Hi there,

I'm trying to get an entity listener to run, but without success. The problem seems to be that the listener class does not get loaded.

I've tried to get the following example to run: http://docs.jboss.org/ejb3/app-server/tutorial/callbacks/callbacks.html which is from a JBoss tuturial.

I did not change anything in the example except for the package name. When I run a test case that persists an entity of type Customer, I'd expect to receive the log output from the callback listener class as described in the example. But no output is generated, although the Customer has been persisted successfully. :(

So I added a static block to the CustomerCallbackListener that simply throws an IllegalArgumentException. As even this exception does not appear in the log output, it seems the callback listener does not get loaded.

Is there anything special I have to do to get the callback listener to run? Are those callback listeners supported in Hibernate?

I'm using Hibernate 3.1rc2 with Hibernate-Annotations 3.1beta6 on Windows XP.

Would be grateful for any hints!

- bitbyter

weird,
This test pass http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/h ... &view=auto

Try to start from it an chenge it until you get your 'failing' config

Thanks for the hint. It seems @EntityListener annotation only works with Hibernate Entity Manager and not with standard Hibernate. Is there a reason for this? Standard Hibernate offers event listeners which are very similar, thus i guess it wouldn't be that hard to implement this. Would it?

- bitbyter

The Hibernate event listener is much more open and sophisticated than the EJB3 one. Actually the EJB3 event listeners are implemented using the Hibernate ones.

You can probably use them in plain hibernate but you'll need to do the init phase yourself. check EventListenerConfigurator in HEM, this is exactly what this piece of code does.