Good day !

I've been using Hibernate for a while (2 years) and never tried developing using Hibernate and Lazy.
Ok, i'm using version 3.0.5 and i'm also experiencing some weird behaviours.
I'm under a JTA transaction on JBOSS 4.0.2.
I have an Object that belongs to a class called AutomaticActivity.
Class AutomaticActivity extends Activity.
This is the situation:

Hibernate.getClass(nextActivity)
.getSimpleName()
.equals("AutomaticActivity")) returns TRUE.

the Object nextActivity, if you look in the debugger shows:

Activity$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$blablabla
the toString() shows blabla.AutomaticActivity@3423e23

Everything fine so far. I proved that i have a AutomaticActivity used as Activity and proxied by CGLIB.

The question is: HOW DO I CAST THIS damn Object to my dear AutomaticActivity to get hold of specific fields?

I tried to initialize the proxy by Hibernate.initialize but it doesn't do anything.
I tried a straight cast even knowing it wouldn't work.
Is there a way to get a value from a specific field in the subclass using the proxied Object?

I'm sure i'm missing something in here.
I really appreciate any help
Thanks in advance,

:LuizDecaro.

PS: A workaround I found for this (ugly one) is to load an AutomaticActivity by the Id from my proxied Object from the DB.

Hibernate reference documentation, chapter "Performance". Read about proxies and how to cast them.

I don't want to be rude mate but
If you had read my post clearly including the ps you'd had noticed that i'm not stupid. (cos' you made me feel like)
And you could have answered my other questions too.
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I don't care how you feel. The fact is that your question is answered in the documentation. I gave you enough information to press CTRL-F and search for it. I realize that this is probably too much to ask for.
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Y're right mate i know that reference guide by heart since v1.0 and you're talking about chapter 19.
What I really wanted to know is that if there is another (more elegant) way embedded in the framework to cast without having to question to the superClass isBLABLA() and loadById(.class, Serializable)

Or if there is a way to get straight info from a field in the subclass from a method using the proxy.

It seems you lost another chance to help.

CHEERS MATE!!

Yes, there is a much nicer way, but we are all trying to hide it from you and don't document it.... Sheesh. And I will now gladly pass on this chance to help you to somebody else.