Ao tentar construir a fábrica de sessão, eu entendo isso. Muito pouco aparece em uma pesquisa na Internet. Mas isso me deixa inoperante por dias agora. Obrigado.

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.cfg.Environment.verifyProperties(Ljava/util/Map;)V
at   org.hibernate.service.ServiceRegistryBuilder.buildServiceRegistry(ServiceRegistryBuilder.java:244)

Usando a versão de hibernação:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-c3p0</artifactId>
  <version>4.1.1.Final</version>
  <type>jar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
  <version>4.1.1.Final</version>
</dependency>

public class HibernateUtils {

private static final String DATABASE_HOST = "host_to_db";

private static SessionFactory factory;
private static ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry;

public static void init() {
Configuration config = getConfiguration();
config.configure();

serviceRegistry = new ServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(
config.getProperties()).buildServiceRegistry();

config.setSessionFactoryObserver(new SessionFactoryObserver() {

@Override
public void sessionFactoryCreated(SessionFactory factory) { }

@Override
public void sessionFactoryClosed(SessionFactory factory) {
ServiceRegistryBuilder.destroy(serviceRegistry);
}
});

factory = config.buildSessionFactory(serviceRegistry);
}