Winners of the Developer.com's Product of the Year 2007 Are Announced

Web Service Development Tool or Add-in

• BEA Aqualogic™ Service Bus
• CocoBase® V5.0 PURE POJO™
• Digg™
• Google™ Maps API
• Microsoft® Windows Communication Framework

And the winner is Google™ Maps API .

A series of articles on Google's Maps API can be found at: Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications
Retrieving Map Location Coordinates

Java Tool or Add-in

• DJ Java Decompiler
• JBoss
• JRuby
• NetBeans Profiler
• IBM®WebSphere® Application Server

And the winner is IBM®WebSphere® Application Server .

For some insight into the product see Q&A with IBM's Rob High on the WebSphere Application Server Product Family

JSR (Java Specification Request)

• JSR 82: Java™ APIs for Bluetooth
• JSR 135: Rich Multimedia API for Mobile Applications
• JSR 220: Enterprise JavaBeansTM 3.0
• JSR 244: JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) Specification
• JSR 248: Rich Multimedia API for Mobile Applications

And the winner is JSR 244: JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) Specification .

The JCP page will give you a great deal of information. For more material you can also see Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization .

.NET Tool or Add-in

• CodeSmith
• Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector
• Microsoft® AJAX Library, ASP.NET AJAX Control Extensions, & ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (collectively "Atlas")
• NUnit
• TestDriven.NET

And the winner is Microsoft® AJAX Library, ASP.NET AJAX Control Extensions, & ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (collectively "Atlas")

More information on this technology can be found at "Atlas" Foundations: ASP.NET 2.0 Callback

Open Source Tool

• NetBeans IDE
• Ruby on Rails
• Subversion source code management
• Ubuntu 6.10
• IBM WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition

And the winner is IBM WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition

Congratulations to all the people who produced the winning products. Thank you to all the readers who participated in the Development.com Product of the Year 2007 contest from the nominations through the voting.

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