@Transient Annotation and Generics in Hibernate Superclasses

I'm working with Hibernate Annotations, and have a transient field in one of my entity superclasses that is mapped as @MappedSuperclass. That is:

@MappedSuperclass
public abstract class MyEntity<T extends MyEntity<T>> implements Serializable {
@Transient
protected Class<T> domainClass = getDomainClass();

This is throwing the following error:

org.hibernate.AnnotationException: Property my.entity.MyClass.domainClass has an unbound type and no explicit target entity. Resolve this Generic usage issue or set an explicit target attribute (eg @OneToMany(target=) or use an explicit @Type

I found the following Hibernate bug report that seems to refer to the same problem, and indicated it is a bug in Hibernate:

http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-698?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel

This bug was recently fixed. Seeing as I've been using Hibernate 3.3, I decided to upgrade to Hibernate Annotations 3.4 to fix this.

It worked! Just thought I'd mention this as a fix to that problem, in case others have it.

PS: Sounds easy, huh ?- but I did have some issues with changing to Hibernate Annotations 3.4 which you can read about here.