I just tried with hibernate-tutorials from 5.2.3 and it works just fine:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Hibernate OSGI Tutorials 5.2.3.Final [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary: [INFO] [INFO] Hibernate Getting Started Guide Tutorials .......... SUCCESS [ 0.008 s] [INFO] Hibernate hbm.xml Tutorial ......................... SUCCESS [ 3.492 s] [INFO] Hibernate Annotations Tutorial ..................... SUCCESS [ 1.679 s] [INFO] Hibernate JPA Tutorial ............................. SUCCESS [ 1.774 s] [INFO] Hibernate Envers Tutorial .......................... SUCCESS [ 4.682 s] [INFO] managed-jpa ........................................ SUCCESS [ 3.245 s] [INFO] unmanaged-jpa ...................................... SUCCESS [ 0.484 s] [INFO] unmanaged-native ................................... SUCCESS [ 0.436 s] [INFO] Hibernate OSGI Tutorials ........................... SUCCESS [ 0.008 s] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 18.724 s [INFO] Finished at: 2016-10-10T11:36:23+03:00 [INFO] Final Memory: 31M/274M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maybe the issue got fixes in the meanwhile.