15th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards

Books: General

Jolt Winner:

• Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra (O'Reilly)

Productivity Winners:

• Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky (Apress)

• Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky (Addison-Wesley Professional)

• Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools by Jack Greenfield, Keith Short, Steve Cook, Stuart Kent, John Crupi (Wiley)

Books: Technical

Jolt Winner:

• Better, Faster, Lighter Java by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland (O'Reilly)

Productivity Winners:

• C++ Coding Standards: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices by Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu (Addison-Wesley Professional )

• Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook by James Elliott (O'Reilly)

• Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse, Second Edition by Jim D'Anjou, Scott Fairbrother, Dan Kehn, John Kellerman, Pat McCarthy (Addison-Wesley Professional)

Business Integration and Data Tools

Jolt Winner:

• EnterpriseTenFold (TenFold)

Productivity Winners:

• DT/Studio 2.3 (Embarcadero Technologies)

• ILOG Rules for .NET (ILOG)

• Toad for Oracle 8.0 (Quest Software)

Change and Configuration Management Tools

Jolt Winner:

• Subversion 2004 (CollabNet)

Productivity Winners:

• AccuRev 3.5 (AccuRev)

• CodeBeamer 3.5 (Intland Software)

• Perforce SCM (Perforce)

Design Tools

Jolt Winner:

• Smart Development Environment 2.0 (Visual Paradigm International)

Productivity Winners:

• MagicDraw UML 9.0 (No Magic)

• Rational Software Architect (IBM)

• Together Designer 2005 (Borland)

Languages and Development Environments

Jolt Winner:

• Eclipse 3.0 (Eclipse Foundation)

Productivity Winners:

• IntelliJ IDEA 4.5 (JetBrains)

• Python 2.4 (python.org)

• REALbasic 5.5 for Windows Professional Edition (REAL Software)

Libraries, Frameworks and Components

Jolt Winner:

• Hibernate 2.1 (JBoss)

Productivity Winners:

• ImageGear Professional 14 (AccuSoft)

• Sun Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 (Sun Microsystems)

• Xtreme Toolkit 9.51 Professional Edition (Codejock)

Management Tools

Jolt Winner:

• CaliberRM 2005 (Borland)

Productivity Winners:

• Autotask 10.0 (Autotask)

• Rational Portfolio Manager (IBM)

• V1: Scrum1.5 (VersionOne)

Mobile Development Tools

Jolt Winner:

• J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2 (Sun Microsystems)

Productivity Winners:

• CodeWarrior for Symbian 3.0 Professional (Nokia)

• Crossfire 5.5 (AppForge)

• Flash Lite 1.1 (Macromedia)

Security

Jolt Winner:

• Source Code Analysis 3.0 (Fortify Software)

Productivity Winners:

• CounterPoint 1.0 (Mirage Networks)

• Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 (Microsoft Corporation)

• POPFile .22.2 (The POPFile Project; open source)

Test – Automated Test Tools

Jolt Winner:

• Agitar Agitator and Dashboard 2.0 (Agitar)

Productivity Winners:

• LISA 2.5 (iTKO Inc.)

• Parasoft Jtest 5.1 (Parasoft)

• TestComplete 3.0 (AutomatedQA)

Test – Defect Tracking Tools

Jolt Winner:

• FogBugz 3.1 (Fog Creek Software)

Productivity Winners:

• Census 6.0 (MetaQuest Software)

• JIRA 3.0 (Atlassian Software Systems)

• OnTime 2004 for Web & Windows (Axosoft)

Utilities

Jolt Winner:

• Captivate 2004 (Macromedia)

Productivity Winners:

• devAdvantage 2.1 (Anticipating Minds)

• Omea Pro 1.0 (JetBrains)

• Quest JProbe 5.2 (Quest Software)

Web Development Tools

Jolt Winner:

• Macromedia Flex 1.5 (Macromedia)

Productivity Winners:

• Contribute 3.0 (Macromedia)

• NitroX 2.0 (M7 Corporation)

• Tomcat 5.0 (The Apache Jakarta Project and leading Tomcat contributor JBoss)

Websites and Developer Networks

Jolt Winner:

• The O'Reilly Network (O'Reilly)

Productivity Winners:

• developer.* (DeveloperDotStar.com) (Daniel Read)

• IBM developerWorks (IBM)

• Java.net (Sun Microsystems)

Hall of Fame

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• InstallShield (Macrovision)