Force initialization of Scala singleton object

Question

I\'m working on an automatic mapping framework built on top of Dozer. I won\'t go into specifics as it\'s not relevant to the question but in general it\'s supposed to allow

Answer 1

As Dave Griffith and Don Roby already noted, it cannot be done at JVM startup in general. However maybe this initialization could wait until first use of your framework? If so, and if you don't mind resorting to fragile reflection tricks, in your --> method you could obtain reference to the companion object and get it initialize itself.

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