diff --git a/src/main/java/org/eclipse/yasson/YassonProperties.java b/src/main/java/org/eclipse/yasson/YassonProperties.java
index 10e6129..a02b934 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/eclipse/yasson/YassonProperties.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/eclipse/yasson/YassonProperties.java
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
      * This will made available to parse patterns like yyyy.MM.dd to
      * {@link java.util.Date}, {@link java.util.Calendar}, {@link java.time.Instant} {@link java.time.LocalDate}
      * or even {@link java.time.ZonedDateTime}.
-     * <p>If time zone is not set in the pattern than UTC time zone is used.
+     * <p>If time zone is not set in the pattern then UTC time zone is used.
      * So for example json value 2018.01.01 becomes 2018.01.01 00:00:00 UTC when parsed
      * to instant {@link java.time.Instant} or {@link java.time.ZonedDateTime}.
      */
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
     /**
      * Serializer to use when object provided to {@link javax.json.bind.Jsonb#toJson(Object)} is {@code null} or an empty
-     * Optional. Much be instance of {@link javax.json.bind.serializer.JsonbSerializer}{@code <Object>}. Its obj value
+     * Optional. Must be instance of {@link javax.json.bind.serializer.JsonbSerializer}{@code <Object>}. Its obj value
      * will be respective parameter.
      */
     public static final String NULL_ROOT_SERIALIZER = "yasson.null-root-serializer";
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/eclipse/yasson/internal/ClassParser.java b/src/main/java/org/eclipse/yasson/internal/ClassParser.java
index 832a99f..2edcfc2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/eclipse/yasson/internal/ClassParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/eclipse/yasson/internal/ClassParser.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2015, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution.
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
 import java.security.AccessController;
 import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@
         for (Method method : declaredMethods) {
             String name = method.getName();
             //isBridge method filters out methods inherited from interfaces
-            if (!isPropertyMethod(method) || method.isBridge()) {
+            if (!isPropertyMethod(method) || method.isBridge() || isSpecialCaseMethod(clazz, method)) {
                 continue;
             }
             final String propertyName = toPropertyMethod(name);
@@ -181,6 +182,25 @@
             Property property = registerMethod(propertyName, method, classElement, classProperties);
         }
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * Filter out certain methods that get forcibly added to some classes.
+     * For example the public groovy.lang.MetaClass X.getMetaClass() method from Groovy classes
+     */
+    private boolean isSpecialCaseMethod(Class<?> clazz, Method m) {
+        if (!Modifier.isPublic(m.getModifiers()) || Modifier.isStatic(m.getModifiers()) || m.isSynthetic())
+            return false;
+        // Groovy objects will have public groovy.lang.MetaClass X.getMetaClass()
+        // which causes an infinite loop in serialization
+        if (m.getName().equals("getMetaClass") && 
+                m.getReturnType().getCanonicalName().equals("groovy.lang.MetaClass"))
+            return true;
+        // WELD proxy objects will have 'public org.jboss.weld
+        if (m.getName().equals("getMetadata") && 
+                m.getReturnType().getCanonicalName().equals("org.jboss.weld.proxy.WeldClientProxy$Metadata"))
+            return true;
+        return false;
+    }
 
     private boolean isGetter(Method m) {
         return (m.getName().startsWith(GET_PREFIX) || m.getName().startsWith(IS_PREFIX)) && m.getParameterCount() == 0;