According to the link below, web tools are a prerequisite for hibernate tools:

http://www.hibernate.org/268.html?cmd=prntdoc

At the moment Hibernate Tools are dependent on WebTools. You can get the latest release from (http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/ [8]). We are only dependent on the xml editor and thus if you want you can just get the WST plugins (I recommend the SDK download, it includes sources to allow easier debugging).


and yet according to this link: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/tools ... index.html

the only requirements for installing hibernate tools are:

Requirements

Install Eclipse 3.1 (http://www.eclipse.org)

After you have downloaded the Hibernate Tools for Eclipse, unpack and copy the plugins to your Eclipse plugins directory. Sometimes Eclipse does not automatically detect new plugins and thus the tools will not be activated. To ensure eclipse sees these changes run eclipse with the -clean option. E.g. eclipse -clean


Is that because the former instructions are for non-cvs type of install, while the latter are for cvs?

Yes. Some of the downloads include the dependent packages.

and the difference is because one page is about *building* the tools, the other about *using*