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2005 Java Pro Editors' Choice Awards
See what products won in development, architecture, and platform categories.
Java Pro Live!, September 2005
When tasked with the decision to choose products for our 2005 Java Pro Editors' Choice Awards, the editorial staff of Java Pro magazine, including selected authors and columnists, were confronted with a Java marketplace offering a cornucopia of tools, IDEs, platforms, suites, and comprehensive integrated solutions specifically designed to work with the complexities of enterprise-scale processes. And then, of course, there were the myriad products that support more granular aspects of the application lifecycle, such as reporting and testing tools, graphics tools, JVMs, and optimizers, among others.
Recognizing our role in covering the industry objectively to best serve the readership, and realizing that scrutinizing products across a wide array of software categories can translate into quite a bit of overlap, we decided that product selection for specific functionality is best left to the individuals who use the products on a daily basis—the readers for our Readers' Choice Awards. For the Editors' Choice Awards we decided to acknowledge broader, comprehensive products that correspond with the areas we use to encapsulate the breadth of the industry in our magazine's coverage. We chose best overall products for development, architecture, and platform, and then we chose a fourth product that we felt best reflected innovation across the enterprise stack, because leveraging tools for developing mission-critical, enterprise-scale applications is a strong direction for the industry.
The selection process was relatively simple. We each created our own short list of product offerings from among vendors whom we identified as being perennial industry leaders, and then tallied the votes to determine the winners. We selected products based on fairly simple criteria: products that we felt have provided noteworthy benefits to Java professionals, exhibited market leadership, and demonstrated the innovation to set them apart from competitors. The editors of Java Pro give you their winners for 2005.
Best Overall Development Product: Eclipse SDK
The Eclipse platform continues to demonstrate widespread acceptance for building IDEs that can be applied to developing embedded Java programs, Web sites, and other diverse applications. It delivers mechanisms exposed through APIs, classes, and methods; useful frameworks; and the essential rules that allow providers to build seamlessly integrated tools. For these reasons, its phenomenal growth, and the many benefits developers derive from this open source platform, Java Pro editors selected the Eclipse SDK as their choice for best overall development product.
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