Thanks Sebastian.
Here is what happened. The person that created this copied and pasted stuff form another module and didn't do it correctly. Such that it used the wrong Hibernate jar. It used the 2.1 jar and not the 3.0 jar. And the
Maven Project.xml didn't have things correct either. So it used a different older version where the tag was supposed to be "role".

We have now changed everything to be correct versions and such and it works.
Mark