JetBrains Announces Winning Authors of 'IntelliJ IDEAL Plugin' Contest

JetBrains s.r.o., creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing applications, today announced the winners of it's first ever IntelliJ IDEAL Plugin development contest. Launched September 1, 2006, developers participating in the contest created extension plugins for the company's flagship Java IDE (Integrated Development Environment) IntelliJ IDEA for the opportunity to win cash and software prizes valued at over $25,000 (US). Over 60 valid entries were submitted for judging by JetBrains senior engineers and managers.

"We are very pleased with the response to our first-ever plugin contest," said JetBrains CEO Sergey Dmitriev. "It not only helped the Java development community benefit from the new and enhanced functionality, but showed all the power and opportunities that IntelliJ IDEA's Open API can provide."

All contest entries, regardless of whether or not they won a prize, have joined the ranks of hundreds of popular IntelliJ IDEA extensions available in the IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Repository at http://plugins.intellij.net/. All entries are free software published under Apache or BSD open source licenses.

Of the more than sixty entries, five plugins were awarded the following cash prizes:

Prize Plugin Awarded Prize Description

First Prize DBHelper -- A productivity $5000 cash

tool to help developers work

with databases inside

IntelliJ IDEA.

Second Prize 1 IntelliLang -- provides $2000 cash

annotation based language

injection and pattern

validation, and more.

Second Prize 2 IntelliME J2ME Plugin -- $2000 cash

facilitates development of

mobile applications with

IntelliJ IDEA

Team Leader's IntelliLang -- this second $1000 cash

Choice prize winner was also the

favorite of IntelliJ IDEA

development team leader

Maxim Shafirov.

Coolest Idea Key Promoter -- shows users $1000 cash

how to easily perform any

action via the keyboard

In addition to cash awards, the authors of the prize-winning plugins receive packages of free software from JetBrains and other sponsoring vendors which vary according to the prize awarded.

Three Honorable Mention plugins were also awarded software prizes:

-- Maven 2 Integration -- integrates Maven 2 into IntelliJ IDEA

-- Tasks -- enables developers to create and manage a daily task list

-- Jar Tool -- a GUI based tool to easily create JAR archives

Third-party companies who contributed software prizes include:

-- Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com) -- JIRA Professional, Confluence

Workgroup

-- ej-Technologies (http://www.ej-technologies.com) -- JProfiler

-- FormDev Software (http://www.jformdesigner.com) -- JForm Designer

-- ProductiveMe (http://www.productiveme.com) -- BuildDesk

-- Sixth and Red River Software (http://www.sixthandredriver.com) -- Refactor-J

and Refactor-X

-- Smardec (http://www.smardec.com) -- Allatori Java Obfuscator

All contestants who submitted valid entries by the October 31, 2006 deadline receive a custom-designed commemorative contest t-shirt. Details about the winning plugins and the names and home countries of the authors are available on the JetBrains contest site at http://plugins.intellij.net.

About JetBrains

JetBrains is a technology-leading software development firm specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software. The company is widely known for its innovative, award-winning Java integrated development environment, IntelliJ IDEA (see details on the Web at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea), ReSharper for C# developers (see http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper), dotTrace profiler for .NET applications (see http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler), and TeamCity, a cross-platform team productivity environment (see http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity).

JetBrains maintains its headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with its R&D labs located in St. Petersburg, Russia and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, see http://www.jetbrains.com.

Note to Editors: JetBrains, IntelliJ, IntelliJ IDEA, ReSharper, dotTrace, TMate, and TeamCity are trademarks or registered trademarks of JetBrains s.r.o. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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