JAVAWORLD ANNOUNCES CATEGORIES FOR THIS YEAR'S JAVAWORLD EDITORS' CHOICE
AWARDS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA August 25, 1998 JavaWorld magazine (www.javaworld.com)
will conduct its second annual JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards in New York
City during the Java Business Expo (December 7-10). The award-winning
Web-only magazine created the Awards to recognize the exceptional
individuals, companies and products using Java to develop, plan and deploy
mission-critical applications.
Since last year's Awards, the number and range of Java tools has increased
dramatically, and new applications for the technology are burgeoning.
Responding to this significant growth, JavaWorld has modified and expanded
the categories for the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards.
AND NOW...THE AWARD CATEGORIES
The first JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards ceremony was held in August
1997. Since that time, new implementations of Java technology have emerged
and, over the past year, have gained great momentum. Companies continue to
demonstrate creativity and initiative with their own Java virtual machines,
and there has been impressive growth on the server-side and in the
availability of JavaBeans components.
To reflect the recent developments on the Java front, JavaWorld has added
the categories "Virtual Machine", "Component", "Servlet" and "Web
Application Server". Of course, in its Awards, JavaWorld will recognize
many of the important areas represented last year, honoring innovators in
categories such as Testing Tools, GUI Class Libraries, Database Middleware,
Web Authoring Tools and IDEs.
The following is a complete list of this year's Awards categories:
* Hall of Fame Inductee
* Most Innovative Company
* Commercial Application
* Virtual Machine
* Component
* Servlet
* Testing Tool
* GUI Class Library
* System-Level Class Library
* Class Library General
* Database Middleware
* Database Tool
* Web Authoring Tool
* Utility
* Compiler/Code Management Tool
* IDE
* Web Application Server
THE JUDGING PROCESS
As with last year's process, candidates in each Awards category will be
evaluated by a distinguished panel of judges drawn from JavaWorld's rich
resource of editors and contributors to the magazine. Many are expert Java
developers who have been working with the language since its inception. The
judges will consider a wide range of products, including the nearly 500
products featured in the JavaWorld Developer Tools Guide
(http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/tools/jw-tools-index.html). They will
begin by nominating their best-product choices based on their personal
knowledge of and experience with various products and companies. Judges
will participate in several rounds of votes and runoffs to determine which
of the products and companies most deserve finalist status, and ultimately,
which deserve to be deemed winner in each category.
ABOUT JAVAWORLD
JavaWorld's effective use of the online medium allows it to deliver
top-quality editorial, industry analysis and hands-on tutorials to more
than 200,000 dedicated Java technology developers and enterprise managers
each month, fueling the innovation of its readership and their companies.
These powerful Java technology developers are creating real-world
applications and changing the way their companies perform business
operations daily. JavaWorld debuted on February 15, 1996, as the first
industry magazine dedicated to Java now delivers more than four times the
number of subscribers than any other Java-specific publication to
Java-related advertisers. Along with sister publication SunWorld, it is
published exclusively on the Internet by Web Publishing Inc., a division of
IDG Communications.
For more information, contact:
Barbara McDonald
Director of Marketing and Business Operations
JavaWorld magazine
telephone: (415) 978-3395
fax: (415) 267-1732
barbara@javaworld.com
