Just a hint, to everyone...when giving a stacktrace of your output...I strongly suggest you edit out you username and passwords to your databases...along with any port references, etc. Same thing for you hibernate.cfg.xml files. Not to mention your database ports. :)
Since we cannot edit our own posts, perhaps the mods could be so kind as to remove them for you.
As for your problem. I haven't used the older versions of Hibernate, so can only speculate. Perhaps it is these three lines in your hibernate.cfg.xml that are incorrect?
Code:
<property name = "connection.driver_class"><!--Insert you Oracle Driver type here--> </property>
<property name = "dialect">net.sf.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect</property>
<property name = "connection.url"><!--database url--></property>
As I said...just speculating.
Maybe post you hibernate.cfg.xml file - rememberring to edit out your passwords, etc. :)
-G