I have done more research on this. Changing the Hibernate version to from 4.0 to 3.5 puts HCG message to the hibernate-tools.log file and to the console but at the end of the process they are, for some reason, removed from the console but they stay on the hibernate-tools.log file. Still no messages when I simply change the version to 3.6 or 4.0. I am kind of new to this. Should this be reported as a bug?