[b]Hibernate version: 3.0a[/b]

Just in case someone is as stupid as me.
I got the following error message:

18.01.2005 11:43:45 ERROR - CGLIB Enhancement failed: de.ifbfag.crk.bl.cashflowgen.zusatzzahlung.conf.Bonus
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot subclass final class class de.ifbfag.crk.bl.cashflowgen.zusatzzahlung.conf.Bonus
at net.sf.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.generateClass(Enhancer.java:438)
at net.sf.cglib.core.DefaultGeneratorStrategy.generate(DefaultGeneratorStrategy.java:25)
at net.sf.cglib.core.AbstractClassGenerator.create(AbstractClassGenerator.java:215)
at net.sf.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.createHelper(Enhancer.java:368)
at net.sf.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.create(Enhancer.java:280)
at net.sf.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.create(Enhancer.java:597)
at org.hibernate.proxy.CGLIBLazyInitializer.getProxyFactory(CGLIBLazyInitializer.java:76)
at org.hibernate.proxy.CGLIBProxyFactory.postInstantiate(CGLIBProxyFactory.java:38)
at org.hibernate.persister.AbstractEntityPersister.<init>(AbstractEntityPersister.java:455)
at org.hibernate.persister.BasicEntityPersister.<init>(BasicEntityPersister.java:350)
at org.hibernate.persister.SingleTableEntityPersister.<init>(SingleTableEntityPersister.java:99)
at org.hibernate.persister.PersisterFactory.createClassPersister(PersisterFactory.java:44)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:188)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:990)


The solution is quite simple. The corresponding java class was final:

public final class A extends B

and so the cglib optimizer is unable to subclass class A.

Yours,
pgrau