Hibernate exception _$$_javassist_0 cannot be cast to javassist.util.proxy.Proxy

I use with hibernate 4.3.5.Final and have similar problem with javassist, the problem is that javassist is missing, and you can get the latest from the Maven repositorty.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
    <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
    <version>3.18.1-GA</version> 
</dependency>

In later editions it is fixed again

With this all works in my case,