Oracle announces winners of the 2013 Duke's Choice awards

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Java is the foundation for virtually every type of networked application. As the world's largest programming and computing platform for more than 9 million developers worldwide, Java enables the efficient development and deployment of innovative applications and services.

In conjunction with JavaOne San Francisco 2013, Oracle and the Java Community are recognizing 11 organizations and developers as the winners of the 11th annual Duke's Choice Awards for their creative and innovative uses of Java technology.

The 2013 Duke's Choice Awards winners will celebrate their innovative, Java-based technologies and Java community contributions during JavaOne San Francisco 2013.

The 11th annual Duke's Choice Award winners were selected by a multi-part process. First, the Java community was asked to submit nominations to this year's judges. Next, the judges selected the nine Duke's Choice Award winners and the five candidates for the Community Choice Award.

Finally, the Community Choice Award nominees were posted on java.net, and all members of the Java community were invited to vote for their favorite candidate.

This year's Community Choice Award was received by two companies in a tie decision. The winners were JFrog for its Bintray social network for developers, and Contrast Security for its Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) security plug-in, Contrast.

"This year's Duke's Choice Awards winners' diverse and innovative set of Java-based projects range from the critical to whimsical, and exemplify how creative and invaluable the Java community truly is," said Peter Utzschneider, vice president Java product management, Oracle.

"We applaud the Java community's recognition of the amazing accomplishments of the award recipients by selecting not one, but two winners for this year's Community Choice Award. We congratulate the Community Choice Awards winners, JFrog and Contrast Security, as well as the rest of the Duke's Choice award winners for representing the extraordinary work being done by the Java community around the world," added Utzschneider.

Click here to see winners of the 2013 Duke's Choice award!