Getting the following error :

13:17:44,650 ERROR [BasicLazyInitializer] CGLIB Enhancement failed

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: net.sf.cglib.proxy.Enhancer.setInterceptDuringConstruction(Z)V
at org.hibernate.proxy.CGLIBLazyInitializer.getProxyFactory(CGLIBLazyInitializer.java:118)
at org.hibernate.proxy.CGLIBProxyFactory.postInstantiate(CGLIBProxyFactory.java:41)
at org.hibernate.tuple.PojoEntityTuplizer.buildProxyFactory(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:161)
at org.hibernate.tuple.AbstractEntityTuplizer.<init>(AbstractEntityTuplizer.java:131)
at org.hibernate.tuple.PojoEntityTuplizer.<init>(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:55)
at org.hibernate.tuple.TuplizerLookup.create(TuplizerLookup.java:64)
at org.hibernate.tuple.EntityMetamodel.<init>(EntityMetamodel.java:257)
at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.<init>(AbstractEntityPersister.java:412)
at org.hibernate.persister.entity.SingleTableEntityPersister.<init>(SingleTableEntityPersister.java:108)
at org.hibernate.persister.PersisterFactory.createClassPersister(PersisterFactory.java:55)
at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:215)
at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1176)
at com.rhg.infrastructure.dao.util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:13)
at com.rhg.infrastructure.dao.impl.MessagesDAOImpl.saveMessage(MessagesDAOImpl.java:57)
at com.rhg.infrastructure.dao.impl.MessagesDAOImpl.main(MessagesDAOImpl.java:50)

Any Idea >

Usually that's caused by having a final member or class somewhere that it shouldn't be. CGLib creates classes that extend your mapped classes, so no mapped class can be final, and neither can any mapped property be.

It looks like you have "wrong" cglib.jar in classpath.