The Hibernate Origin Story (Outsider Edition)
I had nothing to do with the development of Hibernate, except that I happened to be in the room at the time holding a beer. But it is still a fun story.
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A first-person account of how Hibernate began as an internal persistence experiment at Cirrus Technologies, written by someone who witnessed the events peripherally. It explains the context, key people, and decisions that led Gavin King to create Hibernate and release it publicly under the LGPL.
- Explains cirrus.inf origin and package naming
- Describes motivation to replace EJB entity beans
- Notes Gavin King released Hibernate under the LGPL
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The Hibernate Origin Story (fishbowl.pastiche.org): A first-person account of how Hibernate began as an internal persistence experiment at Cirrus Technologies, written by someone who witnessed the events peripherally. It explains the context, key people, and decisions that led Gavin King to create Hibernate and release it publicly under the LGPL.
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