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.

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