Java packs a Jolt

At last week's Software Development West, Java fared well. The Jolt Award winner in the category of Development Environments was the NetBeans IDE, and Sun took home the Website and Developer Networks Jolt Award for its Sun Developer Network.

Other Java Award winners reflect what's hot in software development today: being virtual, being agile, being on the internets. Ajax- and Soap-related products cleaned up. The full list of Jolt and Productivity Award winners recognized some up-and-coming languages, too: Ruby, Python, C++. C++, hmm. Oh, for Symbian.

Anyway, apparently Java's still hot. In case you were wondering if Sun was getting distracted.

Posted by Mike Swaine at 03:43 PM  Permalink