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Top Java Products Honored
The Java vendor community convened to honor the top products and Java community leaders of 2003.
by Editors of Java Pro
JavaOne, June 11, 2003
IBM, Borland, and Sun were big winners at the Java Technology Achievement Awards gala held Tuesday night at the W Hotel across the street from JavaOne. The annual event, cosponsored by Sun Microsystems and Java Pro, honors the top products of 2003 as selected by Java Pro readers. It also comprises the Java Community Awards, selected by a panel of Java Pro editors and presented to individuals and organizations that have contributed the most to Java technology. Click here to see photos of the winners.
IBM squeaked by the major contenders to win five awards, including Best Team Development Tool, Best Java Messaging Tool, Best Java Enterprise Portal Technology, Best Enterprise Application Integration Technology, and Best Web Services Management Tool.
Borland and Sun Microsystems tied with three technology awards apiece. Borland took home awards for Best IDE, Best Java Modeling Tool, and Best Java Optimization/Profiling Tool. Sun won for the Best Mobile Development Tool, Best Web Services Development Toolkit, and Best Java Virtual Machine.
Graham Hamilton, Sun Microsystems Vice President and Sun Fellow, was awarded the Java Community Award for Outstanding Contribution to Java Technology. Oracle Corporation's submission of JSR 198 ("Standard Extension API for Integrated Development Environments") to the Java Community Process won the Java Community Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Java Community.
In an interesting twist from prior years, the Most Valuable Product was divided into two categories to better recognize the equal importance of deployment and development tools in fostering innovation. Open-source endeavors won in these categories: Apache Project's Ant for Most Valuable Java Deployment Product and Eclipse Consortium's Eclipse for Most Valuable Java Development Product.
Fawcette Technical Publications President and CEO Jim Fawcette opened the awards ceremony, congratulating the winners for their outstanding technical achievements and pointing out diversity and innovation that is the hallmark of the Java technology marketplace.
Here's a complete list of the Java Pro 2003 Readers Choice Awards winners, along with brief descriptions from Java Pro Editorial Director Dan Ruby and Editor Kay Keppler, who presented the awards.
2003 Java Pro Readers Choice Awards Winners
Best Mobile Development Tool
Sun Microsystems: J2ME Wireless Toolkit
"These sets of tools provide the emulation environments, performance tuning tools, and documentation and examples needed to develop Java technology applications targeted at CLDC/MIDP-compliant mobile phones and entry-level PDAs."
Best Web Services Development Toolkit
Sun Microsystems: Java Web Services Developer Pack
"This integrated toolkit allows Java developers to build, test, and deploy XML applications, Web services, and Web applications with the latest Web services technologies and standards implementations."
Best IDE
Borland: JBuilder
"This cross-platform environment for building enterprise Java applications simplifies Web and EJB development with two-way visual designers and rapid deployment to leading J2EE platform application servers."
Best Java Development Suite
Eclipse Consortium: Eclipse
"Eclipse is an open-source software development project dedicated to providing a robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, industry platform for the development of highly integrated tools."
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