Following is a list of the 2007 Java Developer’s Journal Readers’ Choice Awards winners and finalists:

Best Book
Winner
Thinking in Java 4th Edition by Bruce Eckel, Pearson Education: Prentice Hall

Finalists
1) Design Patterns in Java by Steven John Metsker and William C. Wake, Pearson Education – Addison-Wesley
2) Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse by Anil Hemrajani, Pearson Education, Inc.
3) Java EE 5 Tutorial, 3rd Edition by Eric Jendrock, Jennifer Ball, Debbie Carson, Ian Evans, Scott Fordin, and Kim Haase, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Best Database Tool or Driver
Winner
MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec

Finalists
1) DataDirect Connect for JDBC, DataDirect Technologies
2) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle
3) BEA Workshop Studio, BEA Systems

Best Enterprise Database
Winner
Oracle Database, Oracle

Finalists
1) MySQL Enterprise, MySQL AB
2) DB2, IBM
3) SQL Server, Microsoft Corporation

 
Best Java Application
Winner
Eclipse, Eclipse Foundation

Finalists
1) IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, JetBrains
2) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
3) BEA Workshop Studio, BEA Systems, Inc.

 
Best Java Application Monitoring Tool
Winner
Compuware Vantage, Compuware Corporation

Finalists
1) Wily Introscope 7, CA’s Wily Technology
2) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle
3) JRockit Mission Control, BEA Systems

Best Java Application Server (Commercial)
Winner
WebLogic, BEA Systems, Inc.

Finalists
1) WebSphere Application Server, IBM
2) Sun Java System Application Server, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) Oracle Application Server, Oracle

 
Best Java Application Server (Free)
Winner
JBoss Application Server, Red Hat Middleware

Finalists
1) Project GlassFish, Sun Microsystems
2) Geronimo, Apache Software Foundation
3) WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, IBM

 
Best Java Business Intelligence Tool
Winner
Style Report Analytic Edition, InetSoft Technology

Finalists
1) Crystal Reports, Business Objects
2) JasperIntelligence, JasperSoft
3) Actuate BIRT – Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools, Actuate Corporation

 
Best Java Class Library
Winner
SWT (The Standard Widget Toolkit), Eclipse.org

Finalists
1) Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) JavaServer Faces 1.2, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Best Java Component
Winner
Infragistics JSuite, Infragistics, Inc.

Finalists
1) Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), Eclipse Foundation
2) Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) JavaServer Faces 1.2, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

 
Best Java Data Access Tool
Winner
MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec

Finalists
1) Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform, BEA Systems
3) Oracle TopLink, Oracle

 
Best Java Debugging Tool
Winner
Eclipse IDE, Eclipse Foundation

Finalists
1) IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, JetBrains
2) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC
3) BEA Workshop Studio, BEA Systems, Inc.

 
Best Java EE Application Development Framework
Winner
MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC

Finalists
1) IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, JetBrains
2) Eclipse Web Tools, Eclipse Foundation
3) NetBeans 5.0, Sun Microsystems

 
Best Java Enterprise Service Bus
Winner
Fiorano ESB 2006, Fiorano Software, Inc.

Finalists
1) Open ESB, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, BEA Systems
3) Oracle ESB, Oracle

 
Best Java IDE Environment
Winner
Eclipse, Eclipse Foundation

Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC
2) BEA Workshop, BEA Systems, Inc.
3) IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, JetBrains

 
Best Java Messaging Tool
Winner
SwiftMQ High Availability JMS Router, IIT Software

Finalists
1) Sun Java System Message Queue, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM
3) FioranoMQ 2006, Fiorano Software, Inc.

 
Best Java Modeling Tool
Winner
MagicDraw UML, No Magic, Inc.

Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC
2) Eclipse Modeling Framework, Eclipse Foundation
3) Together 2006, Borland

 
Best Java Open Source Product
Winner
Eclipse, Eclipse Foundation

Finalists
1) Spring Framework, Interface21
2) NetBeans 5.0, NetBeans 5.0
3) Project GlassFish Java EE 5 Application Server, Sun Microsystems

 
Best Java Persistence Architecture
Winner
Hibernate, Red Hat Middleware

Finalists
1) BEA Kodo 4.1, BEA Systems, Inc.
2) Java Persistence API, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) TopLink, Oracle

 
Best Java Profiling / Testing Tool
Winner
JProfiler, ej-technologies GmbH

Finalists
1) NetBeans Profiler, Sun Microsystems
2) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle
3) JRockit Mission Control, BEA Systems, Inc.

 
Best Java Project Build Tool
Winner
Ant, Apache

Finalists
1) Maven, Apache
2) TeamCity 1.0, JetBrains
3) JBuilder 2007 (TeamInsight), CodeGear/Borland

 
Best Java Reporting Tool
Winner
Style Report 8.0, InetSoft Technology

Finalists
1) Crystal Reports XI, Business Objects
2) JasperReports, JasperSoft
3) Oracle XML Publisher, Oracle

 
Best Java Rich Client Platform
Winner
MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec, LLC

Finalists
1) Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Eclipse Foundation
2) Spring Rich Client Project, www.springframework.org
3) NetBeans 5.0, NetBeans 5.0

 
Best Java Technical Article
Winner
“An Introduction to the Java EE 5 Platform” by John Stearns, Roberto Chinnici, and Sahoo, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Finalists
1) “The Java Persistence API – A Simpler Programming Model for Entity Persistence” by Rahul Biswas and Ed Ort, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2) “Implementing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) with the Java EE 5 SDK” by Gopalan Suresh Raj, Binod P.G., Keith Babo, and Rick Palkovic, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3) “GUI Building in NetBeans IDE” contributed by Talley Mulligan, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

 
Best Java Virtual Machine
Winner
Java SE, Sun Microsystems

Finalists
1) JRockit, BEA Systems, Inc.
2) Java Developer Kit, IBM
3) Excelsior JET, Excelsior LLC
3) JamVM , JamVM

 
Best Java Web Service Toolkit
Winner
Java Web Services Developer Pack, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
2) BEA Workshop, BEA Systems, Inc.
3) Eclipse Web Tools, Eclipse Foundation

 
Best Team Development Tool
Winner
IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 with Team City 1.0, JetBrains

Finalists
1) NetBeans 5.0, Sun Microsystems
2) CA Harvest Change Manager, CA
3) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle

 
Best Tool for Rich Internet Applications
Winner
Adobe Flex, Adobe

Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
2) Google Web Toolkit, Google
2) NetBeans 5.0, Sun Microsystems
3) Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle

 
Most Innovative Java Product
Winner
Eclipse, Eclipse Foundation

Finalists
1) MyEclipse 5.0, Genuitec
2) NetBeans 5.0, Sun Microsystems
3) Oracle Developer Depot, Oracle Corp.