Hibernate Issue - Java.Lang.ClassNotFoundException : Javassist.Util.Proxy.MethodFilter

Problem

Using Hibernate 3.6.3, but hits this javassist not found error, see below for error stacks :

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javassist/util/proxy/MethodFilter
 ...
 at org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer.<init>(PojoEntityTuplizer.java:77)
 ... 16 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javassist.util.proxy.MethodFilter
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
 ... 21 more

Solution

javassist.jar is missing, and you can get the latest from JBoss Maven repositorty.

File : pom.xml

<project ...>
 <repositories>
  <repository>
   <id>JBoss repository</id>
   <url>http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
  </repository>
 </repositories>
 
 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
   <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
   <version>3.6.3.Final</version>
  </dependency>
 
  <dependency>
   <groupId>javassist</groupId>
   <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
   <version>3.12.1.GA</version>
  </dependency>
 
 </dependencies>
</project>