Hibernate 3 jars can be downloaded from the SourceForge web site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/files/hibernate3. If this url doesn’t work or get changed, just search ‘hibernate 3 jars download sourceforge’ in Google.

Directly under the distribution folder, you can find below jars:

• hibernate3.jar
• hibernate-testing.jar

Inside the lib folder, there are other jars that hibernate need. They are as follows:

Under lib\required:

• antlr-2.7.6.jar
• commons-collections-3.1.jar
• dom4j-1.6.1.jar
• javassist-3.12.0.GA.jar
• jta-1.1.jar
• slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar

Under lib\optional:

• c3p0-0.9.1.jar (lib\optional\c3p0)
• infinispan-core-4.2.1.CR1.jar (lib\optional\infinispan)
• jbosscache-core-3.2.1.GA.jar (lib\optional\jbosscache)
• oscache-2.1.jar (lib\optional\oscache)
• proxool-0.8.3.jar (lib\optional\proxool)
• swarmcache-1.0RC2.jar (lib\optional\swarmcache)

Under lib\jpa:

• hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.1.Final.jar

Under lib\bytecode:

• javassist-3.12.0.GA.jar (lib\bytecode\javassist)
• cglib-2.2.jar (lib\bytecode\cglib)

The distribution version used here is 3.6.10. Except for the version numbers, the jar names and folder structure should be same across any version of hibernate3 distribution.