Please, consider updating the outdate version of xml-apis dependency that is being used at hibernate-core component. The latest one is version 1.14.01 (DEC 2009) and the one you are using is version 1.0b2 (Dec 2002). There are multiple issues when using the latest org/w3c/dom or any similar packages due to classes that are introduced to newest versions of xml-apis.
I am alredy using version 1.14.01 on my projects and i ahve not faced any issues at all.