I'm seeing a weird error message and am looking for some ideas as to what the problem could be. I'm sort of new to using the JPA.

I have an application where I'm using Spring's Entity Manager Factory (LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean), EclipseLink as my ORM provider, connected to a MySQL DB and built with Maven. I'm not sure if any of this matters.....

When I deploy this application to Glassfish, the application works as expected.

The problem is, I've created a set of stand alone unit tests to run outside of Glassfish that aren't working correctly. I get the following error (I've edited the class names a little)

com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.MyEntity cannot be cast to com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.MyEntity

The object cannot be cast to a class of the same type? How can that be?

Here's a snippet of the code that is in error

Query q = entityManager.createNamedQuery("MyEntity.findAll");
List entityObjects = q.getResultList();
for (Object entityObject: entityObjects) {
   com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.MyEntity entity = (com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.MyEntity) entityObject;

Previously, I had this code that produced the same error:

CriteriaQuery cq = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder().createQuery();
cq.select(cq.from(com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.MyEntity.class));
List entityObjects = entityManager.createQuery(cq).getResultList();
for (Object entityObject: entityObjects) {
   com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.MyEntity entity = (com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.MyEntity) entityObject;

This code is question is the same that I have deployed to the server.

Here's the innermost exception if it helps

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.MyEntity cannot be cast to com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.MyEntity
    at com.xyz.abc.services.persistence.entity.factory.MyEntityFactory.createBeans(MyEntityFactory.java:47)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:115)
    ... 37 more

I'm guessing that there's some jar I'm using in Glassfish that is different than the ones I'm using in test. I've looked at all the jars I have listed as "provided" and am pretty sure they are all the same ones from Glassfish.

Let me know if you've seen this weird issue before, or any ideas for correcting it.