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Sun Microsystems Sweeps Developer.Com Product of the Year Awards

Posted on: Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 12:00 CST

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. , the creator and leading advocate of Java(TM) technology, today announced that six of its developer products and technologies have been named winners in Developer.com's annual Product of the Year Awards. The Sun products and technologies that were recognized by developers as winners among the hundreds of nominations were Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE(TM) platform), Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM) platform), Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME(TM) platform) Wireless Toolkit, Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP), Sun Java Studio Creator software and NetBeans(TM) software.

"Sun's product roadmap for developers calls for a range of products and technologies to match the diverse needs of different developer constituencies," said Bradley Jones, executive editor of EarthWeb.com's Software Development Channel. "Over the last year, Sun has delivered on this vision. By expanding its product line with brand new offerings like Java Studio Creator software and stepping up its commitment to the NetBeans software open source project, the creator of Java technology has brought to market a broad and innovative line of products."

"We have invested significant time and development resources in diversifying and advancing our developer offerings, and with the results of these awards, that effort is clearly being recognized," said Joe Keller, vice president, marketing, Java Web Services and Development Platforms, Sun Microsystems. "We owe thanks to our enthusiastic developer community for this success. We truly appreciate their input and commitment to our industry- leading technologies and look forward to continuing collaboration in this area."

Details of the Developer.com accolades:

-- The Technology of the Year award went to the Standard Edition of the

Java Platform, J2SE platform 5.0, the most significant upgrade to the

Java platform and programming language in nearly a decade. The J2SE

platform is one of the largest-scale projects ever developed through

the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)), involving nearly 160 expert

members, derived from the work of 15 component Java Specification

Requests (JSRs), and implementing more than 100 features.

-- J2EE platform, the Enterprise Edition of the Java Platform, secured

recognition as the Enterprise Development Tool of the Year. The J2EE

platform simplifies enterprise applications by basing them on

standardized, modular components, by providing a complete set of

services to those components, and by handling many details of

application behavior automatically, without complex programming.

-- Sun's J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2 won the Wireless/Mobile Development

category for the second year in a row. The toolkit's market-leading

support for advanced J2ME APIs, ease-of-use and impressive features

make it an indispensable tool for mobile application developers looking

to leverage the 579 million Java platform-enabled mobile phones

worldwide.

-- Web Service Tool of the Year went to the Java Web Services Developer

Pack (Java WSDP), an integrated toolkit developers can use to build,

test and deploy XML applications, Web services and Web applications

with the latest technologies and standards implementations. The Java

WSDP is available at no charge.

-- The winner of the Java Tool of the Year category was Sun Java Studio

Creator, the premier next-generation tool for Java-based Web

application development. The tool combines the power of 100 percent

Java standards with simplified visual development techniques to give

developers the most effective, most productive way to build

applications in Java.

-- The NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) was awarded Open

Source Tool of the Year. NetBeans IDE 4.0 was the first IDE to support

the new J2SE platform 5.0 language features, and is the first to base

its project system entirely on Apache Ant.

About the Developer.com Awards

The Developer.com Product of the Year Awards were designed to recognize the technologies and products that significantly influence the work done by programmers. Hundreds of products were nominated last winter. The nominations were narrowed for final voting by readers, which took place in January 2005 to determine the winners within each category. Developer.com is a JupiterWeb property, which is a division of Jupitermedia. For more information, visit http://www.developer.com/.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com/. Subscribe to Sun newswire at http://www.sun.com/news.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, J2SE, J2ME, J2EE, Java Community Process, JCP, NetBeans, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Alyson Goodrow

CHEN PR, Inc. for Sun Microsystems

781-466-8282 ext. 42

agoodrow@chenpr.com

http://www.sun.com/news

Contact: allpress@sun.com

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

CONTACT: Alyson Goodrow of CHEN PR, Inc., +1-781-466-8282, ext. 42, oragoodrow@chenpr.com, for Sun Microsystems; http://www.sun.com/news; orallpress@sun.com

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Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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