Winners of the Developer.com Product of the Year 2009

Technology

Winner: RIAs (Rich Internet Applications)

• Agile Development
• AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming)
• Cloud Computing
• SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture)
• Social Networking

Framework

Winner: Spring Framework and the Hibernate Framework When Integrated Together

• Apache Wicket Framework
• Merb 1.0 Framework
• Microsoft® .Net Framework 3.5
• Rails Framework

Development Tool

Winner: NetBeans Platform

• ComponentOne® Studio® Enterprise
• Eclipse Platform
• Visual Studio® 2008
• VMware Workstation 6.5

Development Utilities

Winner: NetBeans Profiler

• ANTS Profiler v3™
• JUnit
• Visual Assist X
• VisualVM

Web Service

Winner: REST (Representational State Transfer)

• Amazon Web Services
• Force.com™
• Microsoft® Live™.com Services
• zembly

Wireless/Mobile

Winner: NetBeans Mobility Pack for Connected Device Configuration (CDC) 5.5

• Android
• iPhone SDK
• Visual Studio® 2008
• Sybase PocketBuilder™

Database Tool

Winner: MySQL™ workbench

• Altova DatabaseSpy® 2008
• LINQ (Microsoft® .NET Language Integrated Query)
• SQL Server® 2008 Reporting Services
• Oracle SQL Developer

Java Tool

Winner: NetBeans IDE

• Eclipse SQL Explorer
• Glassfish Application Server
• Hudson
• javacc™

JSR

Winner: JSR 220: Enterprise JavaBeans™ 3.0

• JSR 241: The Groovy Programming Language
• JSR 249: Mobile Service Architecture 2
• JSR 286: Portlet Specification 2.0
• JSR-296: Swing Application Framework

.NET Tool

Winner: Mono 2.0

• Altova® XMLSpy®
• Microsoft® Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• Microsoft® Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• NAnt

Open Source

Winner: NetBeans

• Android
• Drupal CMS
• Eclipse
• Merb 1.0 Framework
• Mono 2.0

Security

Winner: OpenSSO Enterprise

• AppArmor ("Application Armor")
• Crowd
• Metasploit
• Untangle Gateway