I have a service method that returns an object from the database. This method is called from numerous parts of the system. However, one particular method is getting a return type of ObjectClass_$$_javassist_somenumber as the type. Which is throwing things off. I call the service method exactly the same as everywhere else, so why would hibernate return the proxy as opposed to the natural object?

I know there are ways to expose the "proxied" object, but I don't feel like I should have to do that.

The query is simply

hibernateTemplate.find("from User u where u.username = ?", username)