3.1beta8

The latest version hibernate seems to be behaving differently when persisting class fields.

The problem shows up if the following class is persisted with a cglib decorated class assigned to the 'referenceClass' field. Previously hibernate resolved this to the original class type when storing the field in the database. In the latest version the cglib decorated type is stored. Of course when the application is restarted the cglib class is no longer available and hibernate is unable to repopulate the field.

@Entity
public class Person {

@Id @GeneratedValue
private Long id;
private Class referenceClass;
}

Is this expected behaviour or a bug?

looks like a bug, please open a JIRA issue with a working test case.
BTW try to reproduce with plain hbm files, I'm not sure this this is annotations fault