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Celebrating Innovation: Duke's Choice Awards by Jon Byous The fourth Duke's Choice Awards have been announced. These awards spotlight some of the most clever, practical, and inspirational Java technology applications on the planet. The ceremony will be held Tuesday, May 16, at 4:00 p.m. in the Moscone Center Presentation Theater in the Pavilion. James Gosling, vice president and Sun Fellow, who acted as the competition judge, said, "The Duke's Choice Awards give us a chance to highlight the most innovative Java technology-based applications that are submitted by the Java development community. Each year, the judging process gets more complex as more submissions come in from countries around the world -- with each one using Java technology in a unique way. The 2006 winners truly showcase the power of Java technology -- ranging from enterprise and mobile applications to peer-to-peer networks, gaming, and even robotics."
Who Won?
Category: Mobile Messaging Java technologies: Java Platform, Mobile Edition (Java ME) MIDP 1 and MIDP 2, Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)5.0, Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Servlet 2.3 Convenience With Speed Looking for fast access to personal email, news, and RSS feeds from your Java ME technology-enabled mobile phone? Flurrymail is a quick, easy-to-use mobile messaging solution that is attracting a lot of users. After a short sign-up process on the flurrymail web site, built on JSP/Servlets, proxy servers written in J2SE 5.0 then manage your messages, sending short message service (SMS) notifications when messages are available and compressing them to save on mobile data charges. Flurrymail is available internationally and at no cost for hundreds of mobile phones, email providers, and mobile carriers.
Category: Outstanding Community Contributions to Healthcare Java technologies: J2SE 5.0, web services What Drives the Blood Drive? Donating blood is one of the most noble and unselfish ways people can contribute to their community. Because phone and standard mail methods of soliciting donations are time-consuming and expensive, the Java User Group Sardegna Onlus, in collaboration with the AVIS Center of Sestu in Italy, created an application that sends SMS messages to member blood donors using mobile phones, PDAs, and the Internet.
Category: Java Everywhere Java technologies: J2SE 1.3+, Jython/Ruby, JDOM, AJAX, and web services All Aboard Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) is a community based open-source resource for model railroad hobbyists. Over the past decade, model railroad engineers have adopted embedded microprocessors to allow fine control of locomotives, track switches, control towers, and other active elements of the set. JMRI is a common library and set of applications that interface with digital model-railroad hardware. Over 100 people have contributed to this open-source project based on Java technology toolkits, which hobbyists can download. "People really like this, and the ease of Java-XML integration made it possible," says Bob Jacobsen, one of the project's originators.
Category: Open Source Java technologies: Servlet 2.2, Annotations 1.5 Tapestry is an open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java technology. It complements and builds on the standard Java Servlet API, so it works in any servlet container or application server.
Category: Community: Java technologies: Java ME MIDP 2.0 CLDC 1.0, J2SE 5.0, J2EE 1.4 Get Back at Traffic Jams OurTraffic is a location-based, real-time traffic-monitoring system based on a pervasive network of collaborating mobile Java technology-powered devices. As OurTraffic commuters travel, midlets running on their GPS-enabled Java ME technology devices measure their position and velocity, which are then sent to a J2EE OurTraffic portal. The portal then integrates the measurements from lots of Java ME technology devices to provide a comprehensive real-time traffic map on the web.
Category: Emerging Technologies: Java technologies: J2SE 1.4.2, Java ME CLDC 1.1, and Java Communications API The Adaptable Bot Platform Tommy, a project of Perrone Robotics, Inc., is a completely autonomous, Java-technology powered 12-foot-long dune buggy. It was designed for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge race in an attempt to be the first robotic vehicle to navigate by itself 150 miles through the Mojave desert in 10 hours or less. The functionality came from Perrone Robotics' patent-pending Mobile Autonomous X-bot (MAX) technology. MAX is a general purpose robotics and automation platform, which dramatically decreases the time and cost involved with developing robotics applications of all shapes and sizes.
Category: Outstanding Platform Contributions: The Most Effective Bug Killer Brian Harry, also known as leouser on java.net, has been an amazingly active contributor to Project, having contributed more than half of all the fixes that developers have sent to Sun. The 114 bug fixes he has contributed to the code base for Java SE 6 have made a significant impact on the future of Java technology. His energy, enthusiasm, and skill at coding have earned him the opportunity to work directly with Sun's Swing/AWT engineering team to attack more complex, critical issues in the code and to have an even bigger impact on the quality of Sun's JDK. Thank you, Brian. You truly convey the spirit of Duke.
Category: Secure Printing Services Java technologies: Java ME, JXTA, PKI Pure Print Flexibility Genius Bytes, a Ricoh developer in Germany, has delivered a PKI implementation of JXTA on Ricoh printers named Office P2P. It enables customers to send documents to each other from any Internet-connected device, as well as printer to printer, using Java technology and JXTA technology. One customer, Audi/VW, has over 11,000 Ricoh devices.
Category: Java Card Technology Java technology: Java Card A Smarter Smart Card Tens of thousands of people in Sunderland, England, carry a new card: a Java Card technology smart card that gives them access to the city's Trust Services Infrastructure (TSI). The TSI is designed to make it easier for service providers in both public and private sectors to deliver advanced services to niche groups at an affordable entry cost. Finally, "put it on the card" makes economic sense.
Category: java.com Fans' Choice Time to Rack 'Em and Relax Voted best java.com application by the java.com community, 3D 8-Ball Pool takes you down to the table with great graphics, sound effects, zoom, and online chat. You can compete in tournaments, challenge the champions, and play friends online.
Category: Best Mobile Phone Java technologies: Java Platform, Mobile Edition (Java ME), MIDP 2.0 Motorola SLVR combines superb performance with cutting-edge features, all within the sleek design of one of the slimmest phones around. Not only is this one of the slickest-looking handsets on the market, it also includes a fully functional Java technology-based version of iTunes music so users can sync it with their iTunes library and carry their favorite songs with them on the go. | |||
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