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I was happy to read Bill Burke mention the additions to the EJB 3 spec:

What particularly excites me is that persistence is will now pluggable into J2EE 5. What I mean by this is that third-party vendors that focus soley on persistence will have a standard mechanism to deploy their products into J2EE 5 compliant application servers. JMS has had this for years and I hope what happened to JMS happens to persistence: that a healthy subcomponent market materializes. This can only serve to strengthen J2EE as a whole and bring more choice to users. As usual, I'll tout a little JBoss arrogance and say that Hibernate will still continue dominate Java ORM, but strong competition keeps everybody honest and on their toes. Anyways...

A lot of us have been asking for this for years, and it will be a good day when it happens. Imagine BEA WebLogic running Hibernate as your EJB CMP engine :)