KieServicesClient running on Fuse 7.8 with SpringBoot 2 causes error "java.lang.VerifyError: Cannot inherit from final class"

Issue

When using RHDM 7.10.0 KIE server client on Fuse 7.8 Spring Boot 2 application like the following

        KieServicesConfiguration config = KieServicesFactory.newRestConfiguration(URL, USER, PASSWORD);
        config.setMarshallingFormat(MarshallingFormat.JSON);
        KieServicesClient kieServicesClient =  KieServicesFactory.newKieServicesClient(config); 

this fails with the following exception:

Caused by: java.lang.VerifyError: Cannot inherit from final class
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:468)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:74)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:369)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:363)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:362)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at org.kie.server.api.marshalling.BaseMarshallerBuilder.build(BaseMarshallerBuilder.java:45)
    at org.kie.server.api.marshalling.MarshallerFactory.getMarshaller(MarshallerFactory.java:50)
    at org.kie.server.client.impl.AbstractKieServicesClientImpl.<init>(AbstractKieServicesClientImpl.java:84)
    at org.kie.server.client.impl.KieServicesClientImpl.<init>(KieServicesClientImpl.java:74)
    at org.kie.server.client.KieServicesFactory.newKieServicesClient(KieServicesFactory.java:101)
        ...