[hibernate-dev] Still true with Javassist? Any final method prevents Hibernate from creating single-ended association proxies

[Robin Sander]

On 08.07.2011, at 14:02, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:

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>> So this boils down whether a final method can be intercepted or not. But isn't Javassist capable of doing so?
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> I imagine you can intercept a final method via bytecode enhancement but we do proxy generation, not bytecode enhancement for many reasons.
> (we do have a bytecode enhancement mode but barely anybody uses it, it's more marketing than useful IMO).

Now _that_ is the point! :-)

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> BTW do you mind writing a blog on what you've learned?
> 

I don't have any blog but I've got an the very same question open at stackoverflow and I will add my conclusion
there as my own answer.