[hibernate-dev] hibernate-commons-annotations and Class references

I am working in the org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.SimpleValueBinder class. I need to be able to search for an annotation that exists either on the property or on the entity that defines that property (or on one of that entity's super-classes). I have no idea how to achieve this with hibernate-commons-annotations. As far as I can tell you need to manually get the Class reference in order to be able to get the XClass reference? Is that correct? Also, at what point, if any, during SimpleValueBinder processing can I be certain that the owning entity class and its super-classes have been processed? -- steve(a)hibernate.org http://hibernate.org