Hibernate 1.0 Release
Gavin King released the first public version of Hibernate on SourceForge, offering a novel approach to object-relational mapping that used plain Java objects and configuration via XML.
Significance
This marked Hibernate's official debut, providing a crucial lightweight alternative to EJB Entity Beans and sparking a new paradigm in Java persistence.
Key facts
- Date
- 2001-10-25
- Type
- release
- Location
- SourceForge (virtual, initiated from Perth, Australia)