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                                    <a class="user-hover" rel="hwellmann.de" id="email_hwellmann.de" href="https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=hwellmann.de" style="color:#326ca6;">Harald Wellmann</a>
     commented on <img src="https://issues.jboss.org/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug"> <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-1498'>WELD-1498</a>
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                <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-1498'><strong>ClassCastException when proxied class return this</strong></a>
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        <div class="comment-block" style="background-color:#edf5ff;border:1px solid #dddddd;color:#000000;padding:12px;"><p>I ran into the same problem with 2.1.0.Beta1 in a different context (DeltaSpike JPA + OpenJPA) with no easy workaround:</p>

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<pre>java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.weld.proxies.EntityManager$1821646481$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy cannot be cast to javax.persistence.EntityTransaction
        at org.jboss.weld.proxies.EntityManager$1821646481$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.getTransaction(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.impl.transaction.ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.getTransaction(ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.java:265)
        at org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.impl.transaction.ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.execute(ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.java:130)
        at org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.impl.transaction.TransactionalInterceptor.executeInTransaction(TransactionalInterceptor.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.jboss.weld.interceptor.proxy.SimpleMethodInvocation.invoke(SimpleMethodInvocation.java:30)
        at org.jboss.weld.interceptor.chain.AbstractInterceptionChain.invokeNext(AbstractInterceptionChain.java:93)
        at org.jboss.weld.interceptor.chain.AbstractInterceptionChain.invokeNextInterceptor(AbstractInterceptionChain.java:78)
        at org.jboss.weld.interceptor.proxy.InterceptorMethodHandler.executeInterception(InterceptorMethodHandler.java:48)
        at org.jboss.weld.interceptor.proxy.InterceptorMethodHandler.invoke(InterceptorMethodHandler.java:41)
        at org.jboss.weld.bean.proxy.CombinedInterceptorAndDecoratorStackMethodHandler.invoke(CombinedInterceptorAndDecoratorStackMethodHandler.java:53)
        at org.ops4j.pax.cdi.sample2.service.impl.LibraryServiceImpl$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass.createAuthor(Unknown Source)
        ...
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<p>The scenario is similar: <tt>org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityManagerImpl</tt> implements both <tt>javax.persistence.EntityManager</tt> and <tt>javax.persistence.EntityTransaction</tt>. </p>

<p><tt>EntityManagerImpl.getTransaction()</tt> returns <tt>this</tt>, so the proxy returns itself, but the proxy class does not implement <tt>javax.persistence.EntityTransaction</tt>.</p>

<p>There's a pull request that solves the problem (at least in my case) - it's basically just what Marko suggested.</p>

<p>This also affects 1.1.14.Final.</p></div>
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