JAXB IllegalAccessError no Hibernate 3

Saudações caros.
Essa é minha primeira postagem aqui, então relevem qualquer erro por favor.
Estou com um erro que tem me perturbado a alguns dias. Estou fazendo a migração do sistema de onde trabalho do java 1.4, hibernate 2 para o java 1.6, hibernate 3, que utiliza o jboss para subir a aplicação para testes.

Pois bem. Consegui fazer a migração da versão do java sem grandes traumas, mas a migração do hibernate está me tirando o sono. Já resolvi incontavéis erros, muitos dos quais eram troca de versões de jars e alguns de troca de código. Mas o erro abaixo não estou conseguindo resolver, e por indicação de uma amigo, venho solicitar a ajuda das pessoas daqui.

Segue o stacktrace do erro:

java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method com.sun.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl.<init>()V from class com.sun.xml.bind.DefaultJAXBContextImpl at com.sun.xml.bind.DefaultJAXBContextImpl.<init>(DefaultJAXBContextImpl.java:73) at com.sun.xml.bind.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:39) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:138) at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:249) at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:372) at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:337) at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:244) at br.com.cit.caf.core.config.Config.createCafConfig(Config.java:136) at br.com.cit.caf.core.config.Config.init(Config.java:64) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1048) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:950) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4122) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4421) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment.performDeployInternal(TomcatDeployment.java:321) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment.performDeploy(TomcatDeployment.java:145) at org.jboss.web.deployers.AbstractWarDeployment.start(AbstractWarDeployment.java:461) at org.jboss.web.deployers.WebModule.startModule(WebModule.java:118) at org.jboss.web.deployers.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:97) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:157) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:96) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:668) at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceProxy.java:206) at $Proxy38.start(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.StartStopLifecycleAction.installAction(StartStopLifecycleAction.java:42) at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.StartStopLifecycleAction.installAction(StartStopLifecycleAction.java:37) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.action.SimpleControllerContextAction.simpleInstallAction(SimpleControllerContextAction.java:62) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.action.AccessControllerContextAction.install(AccessControllerContextAction.java:71) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContextActions.install(AbstractControllerContextActions.java:51) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348) at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.ServiceControllerContext.install(ServiceControllerContext.java:297) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1652) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:938) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:988) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:826) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:556) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.doChange(ServiceController.java:688) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:460) at org.jboss.system.deployers.ServiceDeployer.start(ServiceDeployer.java:163) at org.jboss.system.deployers.ServiceDeployer.deploy(ServiceDeployer.java:99) at org.jboss.system.deployers.ServiceDeployer.deploy(ServiceDeployer.java:46) at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractSimpleRealDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractSimpleRealDeployer.java:62) at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:55) at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:179) at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1454) at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1172) at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1193) at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1225) at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1113) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1652) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:938) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:988) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:826) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:556) at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:789) at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:699) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ProfileDeployAction.install(ProfileDeployAction.java:70) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:403) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1652) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:938) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:988) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:778) at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:543) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.registerProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:308) at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:256) at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461) at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221) at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Vi um erro semelhante a este em uma postagem em webloigc e struts, mas a solução utilizada não funciona comigo. Qualquer ajuda e guia será bem vindo.

Agradeço a atenção