[hibernate-dev] Does Hibernate ORM bytecode enhance application entity classes by default?

[Scott Marlow]

> One WildFly issue is that the application datasources aren't available
> until late in WildFly deployment but the JPA container needs to register
> the JPA classloader level transformers very early, so Hibernate can rewrite
> application classes.  This is further complicated by our WildFly CDI
> implementation needing to read application class definitions.
>
> I wonder if it could make sense for org.hibernate.jpa.boot.spi.EntityManagerFactoryBuilder
> to have a separate way to register the ClassTransformer transformer early
> and trigger the PU bootstrap on the first call to registered
> ClassTransformer's.  If that doesn't happen, then we defer bootstrap until
> EntityManagerFactoryBuilder.build() is called.
>

Related question, does ORM need the DatabaseMetaData to performs bytecode
enhancing?  Knowing the answer to that, will help answer my question above.

Scott