Hibernate 1.0 Release
Gavin King released Hibernate 1.0, an open-source ORM solution that quickly gained popularity for its relative simplicity and power compared to EJB 2.x Entity Beans.
Significance
Hibernate's success proved the need for simpler ORM and heavily influenced the design and feature set of JPA.
Key facts
- Date
- 2001-12-01
- Type
- release
- Location
- Online (developed by Gavin King)