You can use the instrumentationTask (hibernate tools) and use no-proxy to make casting work.
Only tried it with xml-mappings, probably works with a hibernate annotation sas well.

Hi.

I've got a similar problem with dozer and hibernate proxies. The mentioned solution for unproxying only works for me with "root" objects of an object graph. if I request an object from the hibernate persistent store with its children (e.g. Person with a referenze to Address class lazyloaded), I unwrap the Person object before dozer is invoked. BUT for the reference to Address this doesn't happen - because it's loaded when dozer calls it getter. So dozer gets the proxied Address. Someone got a solution for this?

Thanks to frusso for your posting - your posting saved me TONS of time figuring out what our issue was, and the "deproxy" method was the correct solution to our problem.

Our thanks!