I am dealing with this same issue in Oracle 10g R3. In my case there is already an antlr.jar loaded elsewhere that ends up being found first on the classpath.
So what are the workarounds?
Well you can use the old query parser from Hibernate 2.1:
Code:
hibernate.query.factory_class=org.hibernate.hql.classic.ClassicQueryTranslatorFactory
But I personally had trouble with this method... some of my queries weren't being produced correctly (as in the where clause would remain in hql for some reason). The other suggestion is to move hibernate and all dependant libraries to your servers boot classpath O.o I found all of this at
http://www.hibernate.org/250.html in the BEA Weblogic section.
I'm still in the middle of solving this issue but just wanted to share what I found so far since I came across this post looking for answers myself.