I'm afraid it's complex and it depends on what exactly you're patching. Your patch might come in and modify a class after all the instances are already made, or the opposite, or in the middle you might patch for instance the Context class, such that some of the instances as the page was loading will be unpatched, and the instances created afterwards are the patched ones. "Patching", while simple sometimes, is not in general for the faint of heart and for this reason it's better to use a Sideview customBehavior where you hit one of these complex requirements. ... View more