Actually, my searching revealed that my issue with javassist is documented elsewhere on the web. Incorporating hibernate into my bundle appears to be the way to go for now.
So I guess my remaining question is just if there is any way to access the hibernate classes located in glassfishv3/glassfish/lib/ from inside an OSGi bundle (to save me from bundling hibernate). If not, no big deal.
Thanks,
Bryce
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