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:
• InstallShield (Macrovision)