Mention a Class instance literal by name and Byteman goes duh? For example if you specify

BIND
config:org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidatorConfiguration = javax.validation.Validation.byProvider(HibernateValidator.class).configure();
tmp:javax.validation.ValidatorFactory = config.buildValidatorFactory();

Byetman will throw the following type error

stdOut: org.jboss.byteman.rule.exception.TypeException: FieldExpression.typeCheck : invalid path HibernateValidator to static field class file . . .

(n.b. that should probably read 'to static field "class" file ...'). In other words even though Byteman knows that the path prefix to ".class" is a static type reference it thinks the ".class" term at the end denotes a static field access. So, mentions of .class need checking for as a special case.

n.b. the obvious case is where ".class" terminates the expression but it will also be necessary to deal with the case where a method of the Class instance is invoked.