Community Voting Now Open on JAX Innovation Awards from S&S Media

The finalists in each of the 3 categories of the awards have now been announced. The voting has now been opened to the Java community, to decide a winner for each category which will be announced at JAXconf in San Jose.

San Jose, CA, June 03, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Voting has now opened on the final stage of the JAX Innovation Awards. Launched 3 months ago by S&S Media, the awards program intends to recognize and reward innovation in the Java Ecosystem, from across the World.

Finalists for the 3 categories are as follows:
Most Innovative Java Company

Atlassian
CloudBees
Red Hat Inc.
Tasktop Technologies
ZeroTurnaround

Top Java Ambassador

Mike Milinkovich
The London Java Community
Martin Odersky
SouJava
Adam Bien

Technology Shortlist

Clojure
Neo4j Graph Database
Gradle
JRebel
Akka

The finalists were defined through initial community nominations followed by a judging process. The judging panel included RedMonk’s James Governor; Groovy, Grails and GPars committer, Dierk König; Kito Mann, editor-in-chief of JSF Central, Duke's Choice Award 2005 winner Fabiane Bizinella Nardon; Ted Neward of Neward & Associates; Bruno Souza, Java champion and evangelist, industry reporter Darryl K. Taft; and Sebastian Meyen of S&S Media.

Worldwide Java communities, organizations, companies and individuals are invited to cast their votes and determine the winners. Companies and individuals are free to vote on the people, technologies and companies they feel most deserve recognition for their value to the world of Java. Votes can be made at http://vote.jax-awards.com/.

Winners will be announced on June 22 at JAXconf, San Jose.

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