Hi Carlo,
The JIRA entry I indicated on codehaus gives you a link (
http://svn.carbonfive.com/public/maven- ... bundle.jar) to a jar that contains javadoc, source and hibernate 3.2.6.ga jar.
There is also the pom file which lists all hibernate dependencies.
I don't think you can find the hibernate jar in a maven repository. What I did is just put hibernate jar and pom on my local repository, just like you did I think. The path where I put those file in my repo is "org / hibernate / hibernate", to fit to the pom description :
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>3.2.6.ga</version>
I also renamed the pom.xml : hibernate-3.2.6.ga.pom (but this may be because I use archiva)
So I don't download the jar from a maven2 repo but from my local server repo when I need it.
Hope my english is not too bad and my answer will help you.
Have a nice day.