JavaWorld 2002 Editors' Choice Awards

sthiyaga writes: "JavaWorld presents the winners of its 2002 Editors' Choice Awards. 5 out of 10 categories were won by open source projects! It's great to see JBoss win the 'Best Java Application Server' category, beating both BEA's WebLogic and IBM's WebSphere! Read the article at JavaWorld."

"Victory" could be spun the opposite way...

[wrinkledshirt]

It's great to see JBoss win the 'Best Java Application Server' category, beating both BEA's WebLogic and IBM's WebSphere! Read the article at JavaWorld.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is rubbing their hands together that .NET's major competitor as a platform isn't having their award-winning products spearheaded by corporations.

Just a thought.

Re:"Victory" could be spun the opposite way...

[Anonymous Coward]

more likely they're pissed off that their major competitors can't have "their air-supply cut off."

Re:"Victory" could be spun the opposite way...

[AVee]

Meanwhile, Microsoft is rubbing their hands together that .NET's major competitor as a platform isn't having their award-winning products spearheaded by corporations.

Perhaps, but on the other end there is nothing said about the other candidates not being good enough. BEA WebLogic get's some very good remarks in the article. Also, it's kind of a proof that open source software can be a good solution and MS will not be happy with that... BTW, I just love this quote:
"JBoss stopped being an application server a long time ago -- it is now officially a phenomenon," says ECA judge Sheil.

A big win for free/open software

[Lumpish Scholar]

There were ten categories. Half of them were won by free/open software: JUnit 3.7, Xerces Java Parser 1.4.4 (from Apache), Apache Ant 1.4.1, JBoss 2.4.4, and Project Jxta. (At least one other, for best IDE, was won by a product with a significant free-as-in-beer version, Forte for Java, Community Edition.) Not bad!

JDOM

[cornflux]

I really would like to see JDOM [jdom.org] ranked as one of the finalists in the "Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology" category. (For those unaware, JDOM is an API for reading/writing XML in Java-centric a manner that masks complexity while retaining usability and power.)

In fact, JDOM is a part of the Java Community Process [jcp.org] as Java Specification Request 102 [jcp.org].

Sun comment about JDOM:

In general we tend to prefer to avoid adding new APIs to the Java platform which replicate the functionality of existing APIs. However JDOM does appear to be significantly easier to use than the earlier APIs, so we believe it will be a useful addition to the platform.

Ballot Stuffing

[Martin S.]

IMHO I think we've had some ballot stuffing on the best IDE front.

JBuilder had been a consistent winner of the best IDE for years, and Forte has never been placed. So why the sudden turn around ? Especially when you conside Forte has not been Version++ this past year and JBuilder has ?

This does not add up!

We shifted from JBuilder Professional to Forte Enterprise, Forte is slower on same hardware, less functional, less productive (about 10 fold) and extremely buggy and prone to crashes. The only way it would be voted best IDE is ballot stuffing.

BTW, I have no connection with iPlanet or Borland other than using their products, Borland because I like to and iPlanet because I have to.