[hibernate-dev] persister.afterInitialize() called too early

Hi, On Friday, I started to take a look at https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-12425. The current flow of operations is the following: Loader#initializeEntitiesAndCollections \_ TwoPhaseLoad.initializeEntity() \_ initialize the entity \_ persister.afterInitialize() \_ endCollectionLoad of the collection persisters \_ TwoPhaseLoad.postLoad() The issue we have is that afterInitialize() is called before the collection loading has been done. The collections are not in the persistence context yet when calling persister.afterInitialize(), which is required with enhanced entities. As afterInitialize() is supposed to be called after the properties have been initialized, I think it makes sense to wait for the collections to be properly initialized. I'm wondering if we should isolate the persister.afterInitialize() call into a TwoPhaseLoad.afterInitialize() method, which would be called after the collection initialization. Any thoughts or better ideas? Thanks. -- Guillaume