With configuration:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<!-- Database connection settings -->
<property name="hibernate.ogm.datastore.provider">
org.hibernate.ogm.datastore.infinispan.impl.InfinispanDatastoreProvider
</property>
<!-- defines which JTA Transaction we plan to use -->
<!--property name="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform"
value="org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.JBossStandAloneJtaPlatform" -->
<property name="hibernate.search.default.indexBase">./lucene-ispn"</property>

<mapping class="chapter12.Person"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

getting a sessionfactory fails with the following stack trace:

org.apache.maven.surefire.util.SurefireReflectionException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; nested exception is java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: null
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:189)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:165)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:85)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:115)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:75)
Caused by: org.testng.TestNGException:
Cannot instantiate class chapter12.hibernate.InfinispanTest
at org.testng.internal.ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance(ObjectFactoryImpl.java:40)
at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance1(ClassHelper.java:377)
at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance(ClassHelper.java:290)
at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getDefaultInstance(ClassImpl.java:125)
at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getInstances(ClassImpl.java:190)
at org.testng.internal.TestNGClassFinder.<init>(TestNGClassFinder.java:130)
at org.testng.TestRunner.initMethods(TestRunner.java:424)
at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:247)
at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:217)
at org.testng.TestRunner.<init>(TestRunner.java:161)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner$DefaultTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(SuiteRunner.java:556)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.init(SuiteRunner.java:168)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.<init>(SuiteRunner.java:117)
at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunner(TestNG.java:1319)
at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:1306)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1160)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1064)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.run(TestNGExecutor.java:77)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.executeMulti(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:159)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.execute(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:99)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGProvider.invoke(TestNGProvider.java:106)
... 9 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.testng.internal.ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance(ObjectFactoryImpl.java:29)
... 29 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/resource/transaction/TransactionCoordinatorBuilder
at org.hibernate.ogm.boot.impl.OgmServiceRegistryInitializer.contribute(OgmServiceRegistryInitializer.java:71)
at org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistryBuilder.applyServiceContributors(StandardServiceRegistryBuilder.java:305)
at org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistryBuilder.build(StandardServiceRegistryBuilder.java:273)
at chapter12.hibernate.BaseHibernateOGMTest.<init>(BaseHibernateOGMTest.java:43)
at chapter12.hibernate.InfinispanTest.<init>(InfinispanTest.java:10)
... 34 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.resource.transaction.TransactionCoordinatorBuilder
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 39 more

I've also included the JPA implementation of the OGM configuration and it has no problem. There is a org.hibernate.resource.transaction.spi.TransactionCoordinatorBuilder class, which makes me think there's an incorrect bit of data in the Hibernate SessionFactory configuration somewhere.