diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index caa073f41..ebd384de6 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
         </echo>    
         <taskdef name="ivy-retrieve" classname="fr.jayasoft.ivy.ant.IvyRetrieve" classpathref="cp"/>
 
-        <ivy-retrieve conf="fileupload-pell,jasperreports,jfree,cewolf,hibernate" />
+        <ivy-retrieve conf="fileupload-pell,jasperreports,jfree,cewolf" />
     </target>
 
     <target name="compile-optional" depends="compile, init-optional" description="compile optional files">
diff --git a/ivy.xml b/ivy.xml
index 26e22783f..c03d09c82 100644
--- a/ivy.xml
+++ b/ivy.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
         <conf name="xslt"/>
         <conf name="tiger"/>
         <conf name="cewolf"/>
-        <conf name="hibernate"/>
         <conf name="tiles"/>
     </configurations>
     <publications>
@@ -150,7 +149,5 @@
         <!-- cewolf -->
         <dependency org="cewolf" name="cewolf" rev="0.12.0" conf="cewolf->*"/>
 
-        <!-- hibernate -->
-        <dependency org="hibernate" name="hibernate" rev="3.0.5" conf="hibernate->default"/>
     </dependencies>
 </ivy-module>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1d760d68b..87715013c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
     <dependencies>
         <!-- unreferenced dependencies:
              * clover, mockobjects, xdoclet : only needed for build
-             * hibernate, cewolf : only used in demos
+             * cewolf : only used in demos
              * quickstart : because i'm lazy, and because it's unlikely to be needed to build a
                             project using ww
              * w3c.dom : needed for the xslt : this is all included in jdk1.5