Issue with serializing Hibernate objects using XStream

Question

I\'ve been facing this issue where, the hibernate objects on serialization produces unexpect xmls containing all the instrumented code from Hibernate.

We did some cleani

Answer 1

I faced a similar problem although Im not using hibernate. I looked at the enitity-pruner but its not quite what i was looking for as I was looking for a more simpler solution.

I came up with a very simple solution using reflection that deproxies CGLIB enhaned objects like a charm.

please visit http://www.anzaan.com/2010/06/serializing-cglib-enhanced-proxy-into-json-using-xstream/ for example and code.