SESSION DESCRIPTION This presentation will discuss the new Hibernate3/EJB3 Persistence tools offering. These tools will allow developers to effortlessly create and maintain a persistence tier in their enterprise applications. The focus of this presentation will be to demonstrate the ease of development that is offered by the coupling of Hibernate3, EJB3, and good persistence tools. The presenters will explore their efforts to port, rewrite, and retrofit those tools to better fit into Eclipse so that developers can make the most use out of Hibernate3 and EJB3.