@Async throws proxy classes through Spring 3.2

Question

I seem to have a problem.

I have a class

@Component @Scope("prototype") public class MyClass extends BaseClass { .... ... @Async public void doSomething() { .... } .... } 

and spring config containing

 <context:annotation-config /> <context:component-scan base-package="com.company.project" /> <task:annotation-driven executor="taskExecutor"/> <task:executor id="taskExecutor" pool-size="10" queue-capacity="10" /> 

and in some part of the code I have

 BaseClass bean = springBeans.getBean(MyClass.class); 

but i get this exception

 org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanNotOfRequiredTypeException: Bean named 'myClass' must be of type [com.company.project.MyClass], but was actually of type [$Proxy19] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:361) 

I can understand its proxy class, but not sure why Spring doesn't allow proxy conversion.

I have cglib 2.2 no dep in the class path, as well as Spring 3.2 core libs.

can anyone point out any clues regarding fixing this?

In short, I want the method to be Async when called.

Answer 1

Since you have CGLIB, you can change @Scope to

 @Scope(value = "prototype", proxyMode = ScopedProxyMode.TARGET_CLASS)