On March 26th, the 13th Software Development Magazine Jolt Award announced the results of the selection. Robert Martin's Agile Software Developments and Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java (3rd Edition) branch software engineering books and technical books Jolt Awards, Microsoft .NET, IBM WebSphere and Borland JBuilder are in terms of development tools. The Best Developer Community Award was taken by IBM AlphaWorks.
The winners of the 2003 Jolt Awards are:
Software engineering book
· Jolt Award: Agile Software Developments: Principles, patterns and practices by Robert C. Martin (Pearson Education)
· Productivity Award: Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond by Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Robert Nord, and Judith Stafford (Addison-Wesley)
Productivity Award: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture By Martin Fowler (Address-Wesley)
Productivity Award: Test-Driven Development: by Example By, Kent Beck (Addison- Wesley)
Technical book
· Jolt Award: Thinking in Java (3rd Edition) by Bruce Eckel (Prentice Hall PTR)
Productivity Award: Understanding Web Services By Eric Newcomer (Addison-Wesley)
Productivity Award: Core Java 2, Vol. 1: Fundamentals (6th Edition) by
· Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell (Prentice Hall PTR)
Productivity Award: PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson (SAMS Publishing)
Business integration and data tool
· Jolt Award: Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect (Microsoft)
Productivity Award: Macromedia ColdFusion MX (Macromedia)
Productivity Award: SQL Anywhere Studio (Sybase)
Productivity Award: IBM WebSphere Studio (IBM)
Analysis and design tools
· Jolt Award: TOGETHER WebSphere Studio Edition (TOGETHERSOFT, NOW Part of Borland)
Productivity Award: argouml
Productivity Award: Codagen Architect 3.0 (CODAGEN)
Productivity Award: SmartDraw (SmartDraw.com)
Language and development environment
· Jolt Award: Borland JBuilder 8 Performance Bundle (Borland) · Productivity Award: Groove Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (Groove NetWorks)
Productivity Award: Intellij Idea 3.0 (JetBrains)
Productivity Award: XMLSPY 5 Enterprise Edition (Altova)
Library, framework and components
· Jolt Award: .Net Compact Framework 1.0 (Microsoft)
Productivity Award: CLX (Borland Software)
Productivity Award: Componentone Studio Enterprise (Componentone)
Productivity Award: JCLASS (Sitraka, Now Part of Quest Software)
Project management tool
· Jolt Award: Test TRACK Pro (Seapine Software)
Productivity Award: MKS Integrity Manager with MKS SOURCE
INTEGRITY Enterprise Edition (MKS)
Productivity Award: Perforce (Perforce Software)
Productivity Award: Select Process Director (SELECT Business Solutions)
test tools
· Jolt Award: Borland Optimizeit Suite 5 (Borland)
Productivity Award: JProbe (Sitraka, Now Part of Quest Software)
Productivity Award: Silktest (Segue)
Productivity Award: WebQA (Watchfire)
Auxiliary tool
· Jolt Award: InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition (Zero G. Software)
Productivity Award: Anthill (Urbancode)
Productivity Award: DevPartner Studio Professional Edition (Compuware)
Productivity Award: Robohelp X3 (EHELP)
Web service tool
· Jolt Award: Bea WebLogic Workshop (Bea Systems)
Productivity Award: M7 Application Assembly Platform (M7)
Productivity Award: SOAP Scope 1.0 (Mindreef)
Productivity Award: SOAPTEST (Parasoft)
Website and developer community
· Jolt Award: IBM AlphaWorks (IBM)
Productivity Award: Bea Dev2dev Online (Bea Systems)
Productivity Award: javaranch.com
Productivity Award: QAForums.com (Betasoft)
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