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Winners of the Developer.com's Product of the Year 2008 Are Announced January 15, 2008 The votes have been tallied for the Developer.com Product of the Year 2008 and in nine of the eleven categories the winners easily stood out amongst their peers. The voting was so close (with a difference of less than 2%) in one of the categories that we named a winner and a runner-up. Technology The finalists were: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) Service Oriented Architecture Rich Internet Applications (RIA) W3C® Semantic Web Web 2.0 And the winner is AJAX for the third year in a row! Considering the connection AJAX has to Web 2.0 and RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), I guess this shouldn't be much of a surprise. Framework The finalists were: Hibernate Java SE 6 Microsoft® .NET Ruby on RailsTM Spring 2 And the winner is Sun Microsystems's JavaTM Platform, Standard Edition 6 JDK. Java SE 6 also received the largest number of votes when all categories were put together. Highlights of this new release include: New parsing and XML to Java object-mapping APIs allows developers to build Web Services. More Desktop APIs Easier to monitor and manage Sun has made Java SE 6 easier to secure with XML-Digital Signature (XML-DSIG) APIs, (PKI) and cryptographic services, and (Java GSS) and Kerberos services Development Tool The finalists were: IntelliJ 7 MyEclipse NetBeans IDE Nexaweb Studio Subversion And the winner is NetBeans IDE. It makes sense that if Java SE 6 is the most popular framework that the NetBeans IDE would follow along those same lines. Comments from a few of the nominators were: Integrates all tools from developer, UML, Web Server, Servlet Container, Deploy, and now Ruby Eases development with the best out-of-the box experience and management Supports Java desktop, mobile, enterprise, and web application development as well as Ruby, C/C++, and JavaScript Development Utility The finalists were: Apache Ant Eclipse Business Intelligence Reporting Tools Eclipse Mylyn Firefox® Parasoft SOAtest And the winner is Mozilla's Firefox®. At first, we were surprised that Firefox was nominated into this category and that it ended up winning. After going back and reviewing the definition we gave for this category, we see how Firefox fits in. Development utilities are not used to create applications. They are used to support tools and utilities. Because so much is done in the browser these days, it is not a stretch to see why Firefox won this category. Web Service Development Tool or Add-in The finalists were: EBayTM Developer's Program and API Salesforce's Force.com® GoogleTM Maps API Project jMaki Microsoft® Windows Communication Foundation And the winner is GoogleTM Maps for the second year in a row. This is still a very popular service and can be implemented in so many different ways. Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in The finalists were: Dreamweaver® CS3 Microsoft® SilverlightTM NetBeans Mobility Pack Nokia Carbide Sun Java Wireless Toolkit And the winner is NetBeans Mobility Pack. Comments from one of the nominators were: Integrated UI for CLDC/MIDP development Visual Mobile Designer for rapid development and prototyping Target mobile applications for multiple devices On-device debugging completes the scene of building and deploying to devices New game builder Database Tool or Add-in The finalists were: Hibernate Java DB MySQL Oracle Database 10g PostgreSQL And the winner is PostgreSQL. This one surprised us and taught us something about our audience base. We need to do a better job of covering this topic! Postgresql.org touts this product as "The world's most advanced open source database" and after seeing the votes, they may just be correct.

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