Unable to autowire velocity engine

[arreyf]

Using Spring-3.1.0 and Velocity-1.6.3

Keep getting proxy error when trying to autowire velocityEngine... have tried to use proxy-target-class="true" but that causes HibernateSessionImpl to fail with CGLIB... any help would be great....

config.xml

  <aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>
  <tx:annotation-driven>

   <bean id="velocityEngne" class="org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean"
            p:resourceLoaderPath="classpath:com/acme/template"
            p:preferFileSystemAccess="false"/>

Service class

@Component
@Transactional
public class ServiceImpl implements Service
{

  @Autowired
  private VelocityEngine velocityEngine

}

causes this error...

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not set org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine field com.acme.service.Service.velocityEngine to $Proxy74