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Each year Developer.com has its Product of the Year contest. We ask readers to nominate then vote on the technologies, tools, and programs that they think are the best in their field. Last year we said that the contest's results were the most clear-cut we had ever seen. This year's results were even more clear-cut than ever. In the main category of Technology, the winner dominated the category with 61% of the votes. Tools such as Apache Ant, which won Development Utility of the year, and Adobe Flash Lite 2, which won Wireless/Mobile development tool of the year, both won by some of the widest margins we've ever seen.
Surprisingly we had a shift in brand alliance, four repeat winners, and a winner in the Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in category that we never expected.
And the winner, for the second year in a row, is Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). This is a category that many developers are interested in. Many times this is what developers would love to try out but never have enough time to investigate. See Bradley Jones' article announcing the Technology of the Year winner for more details on the technologies within this category.
And the winner is Ruby on Rails.
For at good look at this framework read the article Ruby on Rails: All Aboard the Fast Train to Web Application Development
And the winner is IBM WebSphere®.
IBM highlights the key features of WebSphere as
For more details take a look at the WebSphere features at the WebSphere home page.
And the winner in this category again is Apache Ant.
For more detailed information on this utility take a look at the following articles:
And the winner is Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005.
Articles on SQL Server 2005 can be found at:
And the winner is Adobe® Flash® Lite™ 2.
Adobe lists the key features of Flash Lite 2 as:
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 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
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 .
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
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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Winners of the Developer.com's Product of the Year 2007 Are Announced
January 15, 2007
The finalists and winners
in each category are:Technology
Framework
Development Tool
Development Utility
Database Tool or Add-in
Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in
Web Service Development Tool or Add-in
Retrieving Map Location Coordinates
Java Tool or Add-in
JSR (Java Specification Request)
.NET Tool or Add-in
Open Source Tool
