Best Book
Winner
Thinking in Java 4th Edition by Bruce Eckel, Pearson Education: Prentice Hall

Finalists
1) Design Patterns in Java by Steven John Metsker and William C. Wake, Pearson Education ? Addison-Wesley
2) Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse by Anil Hemrajani, Pearson Education, Inc.
3) Java EE 5 Tutorial, 3rd Edition by Eric Jendrock, Jennifer Ball, Debbie Carson, Ian Evans, Scott Fordin, and Kim Haase, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Best Database Tool or Driver
Winner

MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
Finalists
1) DataDirect Connect for JDBC, DataDirect Technologies
2) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle
3) BEA Workshop Studio, BEA Systems

Best Enterprise Database
Winner

Oracle Database, Oracle
Finalists
1) MySQL Enterprise, MySQL AB
2) DB2, IBM
3) SQL Server, Microsoft Corporation

Best Java Application
Winner

Eclipse, Eclipse Foundation
Finalists
1) IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, JetBrains
2) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
3) BEA Workshop Studio, BEA Systems, Inc.

Best Java Application Monitoring Tool
Winner

Compuware Vantage, Compuware Corporation
Finalists
1) Wily Introscope 7, CA’s Wily Technology
2) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle
3) JRockit Mission Control, BEA Systems

Best Java Application Server (Commercial)
Winner

WebLogic, BEA Systems, Inc.
Finalists
1) WebSphere Application Server, IBM
2) Sun Java System Application Server, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) Oracle Application Server, Oracle

Best Java Application Server (Free)
Winner

JBoss Application Server, Red Hat Middleware
Finalists
1) Project GlassFish, Sun Microsystems
2) Geronimo, Apache Software Foundation
3) WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, IBM

Best Java Business Intelligence Tool
Winner

Style Report Analytic Edition, InetSoft Technology
Finalists
1) Crystal Reports, Business Objects
2) JasperIntelligence, JasperSoft
3) Actuate BIRT ? Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools, Actuate Corporation

Best Java Class Library
Winner

SWT (The Standard Widget Toolkit), Eclipse.org
Finalists
1) Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) JavaServer Faces 1.2, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Best Java Component
Winner

Infragistics JSuite, Infragistics, Inc.
Finalists
1) Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), Eclipse Foundation
2) Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) JavaServer Faces 1.2, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Best Java Data Access Tool
Winner

MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
Finalists
1) Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform, BEA Systems
3) Oracle TopLink, Oracle

Best Java Debugging Tool
Winner

Eclipse IDE, Eclipse Foundation
Finalists
1) IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, JetBrains
2) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC
3) BEA Workshop Studio, BEA Systems, Inc.

Best Java EE Application Development Framework
Winner

MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC
Finalists
1) IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, JetBrains
2) Eclipse Web Tools, Eclipse Foundation
3) NetBeans 5.0, Sun Microsystems

Best Java Enterprise Service Bus
Winner

Fiorano ESB 2006, Fiorano Software, Inc.
Finalists

1) Open ESB, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, BEA Systems
3) Oracle ESB, Oracle

Best Java IDE Environment
Winner

Eclipse, Eclipse Foundation
Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC
2) BEA Workshop, BEA Systems, Inc.
3) IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, JetBrains

Best Java Messaging Tool
Winner

SwiftMQ High Availability JMS Router, IIT Software
Finalists
1) Sun Java System Message Queue, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM
3) FioranoMQ 2006, Fiorano Software, Inc.

Best Java Modeling Tool
Winner

MagicDraw UML, No Magic, Inc.
Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC
2) Eclipse Modeling Framework, Eclipse Foundation
3) Together 2006, Borland

Best Java Open Source Product
Winner

Eclipse, Eclipse Foundation
Finalists
1) Spring Framework, Interface21
2) NetBeans 5.0, NetBeans 5.0
3) Project GlassFish Java EE 5 Application Server, Sun Microsystems

Best Java Persistence Architecture
Winner

Hibernate, Red Hat Middleware
Finalists
1) BEA Kodo 4.1, BEA Systems, Inc.
2) Java Persistence API, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) TopLink, Oracle

Best Java Profiling / Testing Tool
Winner

JProfiler, ej-technologies GmbH
Finalists
1) NetBeans Profiler, Sun Microsystems
2) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle
3) JRockit Mission Control, BEA Systems, Inc.

Best Java Project Build Tool
Winner

Ant, Apache
Finalists
1) Maven, Apache
2) TeamCity 1.0, JetBrains
3) JBuilder 2007 (TeamInsight), CodeGear/Borland

Best Java Reporting Tool
Winner

Style Report 8.0, InetSoft Technology
Finalists
1) Crystal Reports XI, Business Objects
2) JasperReports, JasperSoft
3) Oracle XML Publisher, Oracle

Best Java Rich Client Platform
Winner

MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC
Finalists
1) Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Eclipse Foundation
2) Spring Rich Client Project, www.springframework.org
3) NetBeans 5.0, NetBeans 5.0

Best Java Technical Article
Winner

“An Introduction to the Java EE 5 Platform” by John Stearns, Roberto Chinnici, and Sahoo, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Finalists
1) “The Java Persistence API ? A Simpler Programming Model for Entity Persistence” by Rahul Biswas and Ed Ort, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) “Implementing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) with the Java EE 5 SDK” by Gopalan Suresh Raj, Binod P.G., Keith Babo, and Rick Palkovic, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) “GUI Building in NetBeans IDE” contributed by Talley Mulligan, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Best Java Virtual Machine
Winner

Java SE, Sun Microsystems
Finalists
1) JRockit, BEA Systems, Inc.
2) Java Developer Kit, IBM
3) Excelsior JET, Excelsior LLC
3) JamVM , JamVM

Best Java Web Service Toolkit
Winner

Java Web Services Developer Pack, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
2) BEA Workshop, BEA Systems, Inc.
3) Eclipse Web Tools, Eclipse Foundation

Best Team Development Tool
Winner

IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 with Team City 1.0, JetBrains
Finalists
1) NetBeans 5.0, Sun Microsystems
2) CA Harvest Change Manager, CA
3) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle

Best Tool for Rich Internet Applications
Winner

Adobe Flex, Adobe
Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
2) Google Web Toolkit, Google
2) NetBeans 5.0, Sun Microsystems
3) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle

Most Innovative Java Product
Winner

Eclipse, Eclipse Foundation
Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
2) NetBeans 5.0, Sun Microsystems
3) Oracle Developer Depot, Oracle Corp.

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