The ServerSide announced that Hibernate 3 is going beta. Looks good. The roadmap lists the steps forward to EJB3 support.
We’re using TopLink now. It would be interesting to test Hibernate in my next project to see how they measure up.
Oracle has an article on how TipLink intergrates with Spring Framework here.
JavaLobby has a good article on how to ease reading objects in the Eclipse debugger.