JavaDeveloper.com Product of the Year 2004 Results

Developer.com Product of the Year 2004 Results

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Developer.com would like to congratulate the winners as well as the finalists for the Developer.com. The following are the products that Developer.com and its readers choose as the best.

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The Winners

The Developer.com Product of the Year 2004 winners for the best products are:

Category Winner
Technology of the Year 802.11g and other 802.11 wireless standards
Development Tool of the Year
(tie)
Sun Java Studio (formerly Sun ONE Studio)
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
Enterprise Development Tool of the Year Visual Studio .NET 2003
Development Utility of the Year Xmlspy 2004
Best DBMS or Related Technology of the Year MySQL
Wireless Development Product of the Year Sun’s J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1
Web Service of the Year Amazon.com Web Service (winning service)
Web Services Interoperability Standard (WS-I) (winning standard/tool)
.NET Tool/Add-in of the Year Visual Studio .NET 2003
Java Tool/Add-in of the Year NetBeans IDE 3.5.1
Open Source Tool of the Year Eclipse

The Finalists

Developer.com would also like to congratulate all of the finalists in each of the categories. The following were chosen as the finalists out of all the products nominated by the readers of Developer.com:

Technology of the Year

Winner:

802.11g and other 802.11 wireless standards from IEEE

Finalists:

  • Java Card
  • BEA WebLogic Platform
  • Blogging
  • Eclipse
  • NetBeans Platform
  • Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) and Basic Profile 1.0 (BP1.0)

Development Tool of the Year

Winner (tie):

Sun Java Studio (formerly Sun ONE Studio) from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Visual Studio .NET 2003 from Microsoft Corporation

Finalists:

  • BEA WebLogic Platform
  • Borland C#Builder
  • Computer Associates Advantage Plex
  • Compuware DevPartner Studio
  • IBM WebSphere Studio v5.1
  • JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
Enterprise Development Tool of the Year

Winner:

Visual Studio .NET 2003 from Microsoft Corporation

Finalists:

  • BEA WebLogic Platform
  • Eclipse
  • IBM WebSphere Application Developer
  • IBM developerWorks Toolbox subscription
  • MSDN Universal Subscription
  • Sun J2EE
  • Sun Java Studio (formerly Sun ONE Studio)
Development Utility of the Year

Winner:

Xmlspy 2004 from Altova Inc.

Finalists:

  • Crystal Decisions Crystal Reports
  • Borland CodeWright
  • CVS 1.10.8
  • Visual SlickEdit
Best DBMS or Related Technology of the Year

Winner:

MySQL from MySQL AB

Finalists:

  • Embarcadero ER/Studio
  • IBM DB2 Universal Database
  • InterSystems CACHÉ
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000
  • Oracle 9i Database
  • PointBase Micro Edition
Wireless Development Product of the Year

Winner:

J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1 from Sun Microsystems Inc.

Finalists:

  • Borland C++BuilderX
  • CA Advantage Plex for Distributed Systems
  • IBM WebSphere Everyplace Access
  • Nokia Developer”s Suite 2.0 for J2ME
  • QUALCOMM BREW SDK 3.0
  • Sybase’s SQL Anywhere Studio Development Edition v 9.x
  • Visual Studio .NET 2003
Web Service of the Year

Winner:

Amazon.com Web Service (winning service) from Amazon.com
Web Services Interoperability Standard (WS-I)(winning standard/tool) from the Web Services Interoperability Organization

Finalists:

  • BEA WebLogic Workshop
  • Cape Clear CapeStudio 3
  • Grand Central Communications Business Services Network
  • IBM WebSphere SDK for Web Services (WSDK) 5.1
  • IBM WebSphere Studio
  • Oak Leaf Enterprises Mere Mortals .NET
  • WebMethods Integration Platform
.NET Tool/Add-in of the Year

Winner:

Visual Studio .NET 2003 from Microsoft Corporation

Finalists:

  • Borland C#Builder J (top, non-Microsoft .NET Tool/Add-in)
  • ActiveState”s VisualXSLT
  • Crystal Decisions Crystal Reports 9
  • Dundas Chart for .NET
  • InstallShield DevStudio Version 9
Java Tool/Add-in of the Year

Winner:

NetBeans IDE 3.5.1 from NetBeans.org

Finalists:

  • BEA WebLogic
  • Borland Together ControlCenter
  • Compuware OptimalJ
  • Eclipse
  • ej-technologies Jprofiler
  • IBM WebSphere Application Developer
  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • Oracle9i JDeveloper
  • Parasoft Jtest 5.0
Open Source Tool of the Year

Winner:

Eclipse from Eclipse.org

Finalists:

  • Apache Tomcat 4.1.2x
  • Hibernate
  • Mono Project
  • NetBeans IDE 3.5.1
  • PHP

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