What is the loading order for class items?

There is a class that writes a context DAO layer object to the servlet.

@WebListener public class ContextListener implements ServletContextListener { private final SessionFactory factory = new Configuration() .configure() .buildSessionFactory(); @Override public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) { final DAOImp dao = new DAOImp(new AtomicReference<>(factory)); sce.getServletContext().setAttribute("dao", dao); } @Override public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) { factory.close(); } } 

Can the contextInitialized method be contextInitialized before the factory variable gets a value, and why?

Update: SessionFactory is a Hibernate factory.