Yes, I am very open to this; not only for instantiation, but
also for *proxy* instantiation. My motivation for this is
integration with AOP frameworks.
How I propose to do this is to add some more methods to
Interceptor in Hibernate2. (It is currently possible by
extending EntityPersister, but tha
Just a quick query: as I understand it, each Object that uses Hibernate
for persistence needs to have a concrete class with an empty
constructor. How hard would it be to modify Hibernate to call a method
on a factory class instead of "new"? And how hard would it be to be
able to pass a referenc