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2001 Jolt & Productivity Award Winners

In each of the six categories, we present one Jolt Award and three Productivity Awards. The categories are Books, Design Tools and Processes, Libraries, Components and Frameworks, Languages and Development Environments, Utilities , and Web Sites and Developer Networks. The Jolt winner was selected as the product that most jolted the industry during the 2001 calendar year. The Productivity Award winners also deserve recognition for having a significant impact in software development. Also presented was the Software Development Hall of Fame Award, a crystal ice bucket filled with Jolt Cola.

For more information on the processes of nominating and selecting the Jolt Awards, visit our Jolt Awards general information page.

Books

Jolt Award:

• Effective Java, by Joshua Bloch, published Addison-Wesley

Productivity Awards:

• Agile Software Development by Alistair Cockburn, published by Addison-Wesley
• Software Craftmanship by Pete McBreen, published by Addison-Wesley
• Under Press and On Time by Ed Sullivan, published by Microsoft Press

Design Tools and Processes

Jolt Award:

• Rational Unified Process from Rational Software

Productivity Awards:

• Describe from Embarcadero Technologies
• Sitespring from Macromedia
• Ruled White Index Cards from Generic

Languages and Development Environments

Jolt Award:

• IntelliJ IDEA from JetBrains (formerly IntelliJ)

Productivity Awards:

• Delphi 6 and Kylix 2 from Borland
• JBuilder from Borland
• VisualStudio .NET from Microsoft

Libraries, Components and Frameworks

Jolt Award:

• The .NET Framework from Microsoft

Productivity Awards:

• J2EE from Sun Microsystems
• JRules from ILOG
• Qt from Trolltech

Utilities

Jolt Award:

• JProbe Suite from Sitraka

Productivity Awards:

• Ant from The Apache Project
• VM Workstation from VMWare
• DashO-Pro from preEmptive Solutions

Web Sites and Developer Networks

Jolt Award:

• Google Groups from Google

Productivity Awards:

• MSDN from Microsoft
• developerWorks from IBM
• WikiWikiWeb from Ward Cunningham et al.

Hall of Fame

Borland