To work through the 3.6 tutorial should I be using Maven 2 or 3 (or does it matter)?

How do I configure things to point to the correct maven repository for Hibernate 3.6?

How do I set things up so org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver is found?

Will all of this work with Java 6 or should I use Java 5?

If there is a corrected version of the Chapter 1 tutorial in the docbook repository where would it be? how would I "make" the document?
(I am new to Hibernate and maven and therefore to its "build from source" procedure, though I've started to learn.)
The README in the documentation/manual directory of what I cloned from the git repository for 3.6 seems outdated.
To my surprise, gradlew assemble at the top level actually claimed to have built everything successfully, but it doesn't seem to have done anything about the documentation.