SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com) announced today the results of its 10th annual “Readers’ Choice Awards” for best products and tools for the SOA, Web Services, Java and XML technologies. Winners and three finalists were announced today in 21 categories by SOA Web Services Journal. Java Developer’s Journal also announced winners and finalists in 26 distinct product and tool categories.

Also today SYS-CON Media opened its nominations to select the best AJAX products and tools and best AJAX-driven websites of the year at its AJAX Developer's Journal website (http://ajax.sys-con.com).

The SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program, widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by the industry’s vendors, customers, and users, as well as by the readers of SYS-CON Media’s industry-leading i-technology publications.

”For a decade now, SYS-CON Media has been setting the standard in allowing our readers to determine what should be called a great product and what should not,” said SYS-CON CEO & Founder Fuat Kircaali. “This year’s results reflect a vibrant software industry and show that the commitment of i-technology professionals to product excellence was as strong in 2005 as in any year since the Readers’ Choice Awards program began ten years ago.”

On the two pages that follow is a complete list of all winners and runners-up in the 21 award categories of the 2005 SOA Web Services Journal Readers’ Choice Awards and the 26 award categories of the 2005 Java Developer’s Journal Readers’ Choice Awards: