The 2005 Winners By Category Are:
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 Factory: 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 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, 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 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 (Atlasyan 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 Developments 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. * (Daniel Read) (DANIEL READ)
- IBM DeveloperWorks (IBM)
- Java.Net (Sun Microsystems)
Hall of fame:
- Installshield (Macrovision)
Written later: From this year, this year's Jolt Grand Prize will be seen that there is a number of foreign technology development: from the winning books listed in the book item, the research on design patterns is still in the assessed, and the book about Java open source project It is also favored, such as Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook, Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse. It is also no wonder that this year's language and development environment Jolt Awards winners are Eclipse, libraries, frameworks, and component items. Jolt Grand Prize winners are hibernate. 2005 Java open source project is really fruitful. Open Source Community is attracting more programmers around the world. In another aspect, this year's Jolt Award has joined two JOLT awards. The software about test tools is also increasingly attracting people's attention. People have a clearer understanding of "agile": "Iteration and frequent testing." More and more test tools will make testing more interesting. Suddenly think of Microsoft, oh, where are you?