Currently, Hibernate applications are required to have a Javassist dependency. In modular classloading environments (e.g. WildFly + OSGi), applications are therefore not allowed to include their own Javassist classes (which may be a different version of Javassist than what Hibernate ORM needs).

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Hack test that manually repackages javassist.util.proxy