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Top Java Products Honored
The Java vendor community convened to honor the top products and Java community leaders of 2006.
by Editors of Java Pro
JavaOne, May 18, 2006
IBM, Sun, and Oracle each earned several awards at the Java Technology Achievement Awards gala held Wednesday night at the W Hotel across the street from JavaOne. The event, cosponsored by Sun Microsystems and Java Pro, honored the top products of 2006 as selected by Java Pro readers. It also comprised 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.
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Richard Green, executive vice president of Sun Software, congratulated the winners for their outstanding technical achievements.
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Java Pro Editor Terry O'Donnell (left) presents Mike Milinkovich with an award for Eclipse, which was chosen Best IDE. Eclipse also won for Best Java Development Suite.
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Fawcette Technical Publications Vice President of Publishing Jeff Hadfield conducted the awards ceremony, with a special welcome from Richard Green, executive vice president of Sun Software, who congratulated the winners for their outstanding technical achievements and pointed out the diversity and innovation that is the hallmark of the Java technology marketplace.
Here's a complete list of the Java Pro 2006 Readers Choice Awards winners.
2006 Java Pro Readers Choice Awards Winners
Best Mobile Development Tool
Oracle: JDeveloper
Best Web Services Development Toolkit
Sun Microsystems: Java Web Services Developer Pack
Best IDE
Eclipse Foundation: Eclipse
Best Java Development Suite
Eclipse Foundation: Eclipse
Best Visual Bean/Component
BEA: WebLogic Workshop
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Larry Cable accepts an award for BEA's WebLogic Workshop in the Best Visual Bean/Component category.
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Business Objects' Colin Gray accepts an award for Crystal Reports, which won Best Java Reporting Tool.
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Best Java Reporting Tool
Business Objects: Crystal Reports
Best Java Graphics Tool
Apache: Batik SVG Toolkit
Best Team Development Tool
Apache: Ant
Best Java Modeling Tool
IBM: Rational Rose XDE Professional
Best Java Performance/Testing Tool
JUnit.org: JUnit
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IBM's Kathy Mandelstein accepts an award for Rational Rose XDE Professional in the Best Java Modeling Tool category.
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Oracle's Ted Farrell accepts an award for JDeveloper in the Best Java Optimization/Profiling Tool category.
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Best Java Messaging Tool
IBM: WebSphere MQ
Best Java EE Application Server
JBoss Group: JBoss Application Server
Best Java Enterprise Portal Technology
IBM: WebSphere Portlet Factory
Best Enterprise Application Integration Technology
IBM: WebSphere Application Studio, Integration Edition
Best Java Data Access Tool or Driver
BEA: WebLogic Liquid Data
Best Java Optimization/Profiling Tool
Oracle: JDeveloper
Best Web Services Management Tool
IBM: WebSphere Studio Site Developer
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Bill Shannon from Sun Microsystems accepts a Java Community Award for Outstanding Contribution to Java Technology.
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The band Pentimento Jazz entertained guests at FTP's Java Technology Achievement Awards event at the W Hotel.
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Best Installation Tool
Macrovision: InstallAnywhere
Best Java Virtual Machine
Sun Microsystems: Sun Microsystems SDK/JDK
Best Pure Java Packaged Client/Server or Distributed Application
db4objects: db4o
Best Pure Java Packaged Client/Server or Distributed Application
Spectrum Software: SpectrumSCM
Java Community Awards
Outstanding Contribution to Java Technology
Bill Shannon, Sun Microsystems
Outstanding Contribution to the Java Community
Sun Microsystems, JSR 220 Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0
Outstanding Contribution to the Java Community
Oracle, JSR 220 Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0
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