first release of hibernate & history of hibernate?

jt_1000 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:47 pm

1) does anyone know when hibernate was first released (into opensource, if different)?

and

2) can someone provide a brief history of the product

there was nothing readily available as far as the actual first release of hibernate on the website.

Thanks!

pksiv · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:57 pm

jt_1000 wrote:

1) does anyone know when hibernate was first released (into opensource, if different)?

If you go to sourceforge for the product, you can see that the first version was available on Nov 30, 2001 as Hibernate-0.8.zip

and

2) can someone provide a brief history of the product

As for the brief history, I'm not sure what you're looking for.

It was originally written by Gavin King.

It started picking up a lot of buzz in 3rd/4th qtr 2003 and soon after that JBoss hired Gavin, http://theserverside.com/news/thread.ts ... d_id=21482, to work on it fulltime as part of their overall Professional OS strategy.

Beginning with the 3.0 release around December 2004 the package names were changed from net.sf.hibernate.* to org.hibernate.* - although this was hardly the only notable change.

Thanks!

jt_1000 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:36 pm

When was it "orginally written by Gavin..."?
and when was it released into opensource (if different)?

pksiv · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:30 pm

jt_1000 wrote:

When was it "orginally written by Gavin..."?
and when was it released into opensource (if different)?

Hopefully Gavin will log on and tell you... But you're probably on your own.