Pojo constructor called twice - normal?

[captainvoid]

Hi,
being a newbie to Seam and JSF I just built my first Seam webapp running in Tomcat 5.5 (Seam 1.2.1 GA + Facelets).
In order to see when exactly my components (all Pojos) get instantiated I put some debug output in the components' constructors. Now I noticed that Seam, every time it creates a component, apparently calls the constructor twice, first directly then via javassist.
I guess this is normal (because of the proxies?) but just wanted to be sure before putting expensive operations in the constructors...
Thanks for information!

[matt.drees]

Yep, that's normal.

[matt.drees]

(In general, it's better to put stuff in a @Create method rather than a constructor)

[captainvoid]

ok - thanks Matt!