I have stumbled upon a really annoying situation: I am using Hibernate & Spring as backend for my app and it seems that in some cases, the entities that are in a relationship with a particular entity are not fetched as normal entity objects from the DB, but as Javassist types. E.g.:

I have the Campaign entity with the following relationships:

```
@Entity
@Table(name = "campaign")
public class Campaign implements Serializable {
  [..]
  @ManyToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
  @JoinTable(uniqueConstraints = @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {
        "campaign_id", "dealer_id" }), name = "campaign_has_dealer", joinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "campaign_id", nullable = false) }, inverseJoinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "dealer_id", nullable = false) })
  private List<Dealer> dealers = new ArrayList<Dealer>();

@ManyToMany
// (fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
@JoinTable(uniqueConstraints = @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {
        "campaign_id", "sales_area_id" }), name = "campaign_has_sales_area", joinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "campaign_id", nullable = false) }, inverseJoinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "sales_area_id", nullable = false) })
private List<SalesArea> salesAreas = new ArrayList<SalesArea>();
}

```

Upon retrieving the salesAreas connected to this Campaign, I get a list of SalesArea\_$$\_javassist\_56, while for the dealers, I get normal Hibernate entities. Since the client part is based on GWT, we use RequestFactory for retrieving stuff. I initially thought it was a problem with the proxies, locators and so on but I have set a breakpoint in the service where these are retrieved and they are Javassist objects directly after selecting them. It seems that even removing the FetchType.LAZY annotation (although definitely not a desirable solution), the same thing happens. This happened also with other types of relationships, not only @ManyToMany.

We are using GWT 2.3, Spring 3, Hibernate 3.6.3 and JPA 2.0 for annotations. 

Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Thanks in advance