Hibernate 1.0 Beta 1 Release
Gavin King released the first public beta of Hibernate, an open-source object-relational mapping tool, to the developer community.
Significance
This marked the birth of Hibernate as a viable, open-source alternative to complex EJB Entity Beans and manual JDBC, offering a more developer-friendly approach to persistence.
Key facts
- Date
- 2001-10-09
- Type
- release
- Location
- Internet (SourceForge)