java.lang.ClassCastException: sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl cannot be cast to java.lang.Class in JBoss EAP 5

Issue

• gemfire 7 MBean registration failure on jboss-eap-5.2, I get the an exception (stack trace below) while deploying a gemfire 7 based application.

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Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl cannot be cast to java.lang.Class
                at org.jboss.mx.mxbean.MXBeanUtils.getOpenType(MXBeanUtils.java:98)
                at org.jboss.mx.mxbean.MXBeanMetaData.buildParameter(MXBeanMetaData.java:332)
                at org.jboss.mx.mxbean.MXBeanMetaData.buildConstructor(MXBeanMetaData.java:318)
                at org.jboss.mx.mxbean.MXBeanMetaData.buildConstructors(MXBeanMetaData.java:302)
                at org.jboss.mx.mxbean.MXBeanMetaData.build(MXBeanMetaData.java:199)
                ... 150 more