I have been working through the documentation that is included with the distribution.
hibernate-distribution-3.6.1.Final\documentation\manual\en-US\html_single in section
1.2.1 Mapping the Person Class

I suggest where it says to do the following, correct it. It did not work for me. This tutorial seems to go happily along dropping details. It would be nice to have the end working code.

Finally, add the new mapping to Hibernate's configuration:
<mapping resource="events/Event.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="events/Person.hbm.xml"/>

Change this to the actual entry.

Finally, add the new mapping to Hibernate's configuration:
<mapping resource="org/hibernate/tutorial/domain/Event.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="org/hibernate/tutorial/domain/Person.hbm.xml"/>

hi, thanks for this.
Please provide a patch and attach it to a new ticket on our JIRA : http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH
Alternatively to creating patches, using github is even better.

Always use JIRA to provide fixes/improvements, the forum has way too many posts we can easily miss some.

Now that I figured out more, I was able to work through the tutorial and figure out what fixes were needed. There are several tickets that I created in Jira.