Hello,

I am looking into the source code of Hibernate and I am trying to better understand how it is implemented.
My question relates to annotation processing by Hibernate. Let's take a simple JPA annotation : [code]@Column[/code].

I would like to know:
-What is the class in charge of processing the annotation (at runtime I suppose)?
-How and when is the relevant method of that class invoked (at runtime I suppose)?

Any clue welcome,

Thanks in advance for your replies,

Julien.