The latest hibernate tools for maven2 at the moment is 3.1.0.alpha5, could anyone of the dev's contribute to ibiblio and the maven2 project in general the latest tools version when they come out?
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/org/hiber ... ate-tools/

As answered many times before: No. We don't use Maven and thus cannot test nor verify it. This is a job for the Maven community.

I'm struggling through the same issues.

It's not ideal; but when the official Maven repository doesn't contain a file you need, it is still possible to build.

You can obtain a copy of the right version of the right file by downloading normally.

The maven2 install:install-file goal will copy the jar file into your local Maven 2 repository, putting it in the right place with the right name.

One example of this is on my blog:

http://howardlewisship.com/blog/2006/01 ... n-api.html

I got the 3.1.0.beta2 distro of hibernate tools and extracted the hibernate-tools.jar to a temporary directory.

bash-3.00$ mvn install:install-file -Dfile=hibernate-tools.jar -DgroupId=org.hibernate -DartifactId=hibernate-tools -Dversion=3.1.0.beta2 -Dpackaging=jar
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'install'.
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building ePluribus Sample Application
[INFO] task-segment: [install:install-file] (aggregator-style)
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [install:install-file]
[INFO] Installing c:\workspace\epluribus\hibernate-tools.jar to C:\Documents and Settings\Howard\.m2\repository\org\hibe
rnate\hibernate-tools\3.1.0.beta2\hibernate-tools-3.1.0.beta2.jar
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: < 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jan 17 10:58:42 PST 2006
[INFO] Final Memory: 2M/4M
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
bash-3.00$

I'm still struggling to get the rest working; there's some kind of incompatibility between the tools and the version of Hibernate I'm using.