Hibernate 1.0 Initial Release

Name: Hibernate 1.0 Initial Release
Start: 2001-12-01
Location: Internet (source code repositories, forums)

Gavin King releases the first public version of Hibernate, offering a lightweight alternative to EJB 2.0 for object-relational mapping.

Significance

Marked the birth of a new approach to Java persistence, providing an early taste of 'POJO persistence' and signaling a shift away from EJB's complexity.

Key facts

Date: 2001-12-01
Type: release
Location: Internet (source code repositories, forums)