Creator is Java Tool of the Year!

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Creator was just
announced
as the winner of the Java Tool of The Year category from developer.com!
It was also a runner-up for the Tool of the Year award.
Here's the detailed writeup of the
candidates and winner of the Java tool category.

NetBeans also scored big, winning the Open Source Tool of the year award (its
competitor Eclipse won the Tool of the Year award). NetBeans supports the new language features in JDK 5.0, which
was the Technology of the Year winner.

Thanks to those who voted! And rest assured we're hard at work on the next release to have a great entry for next year's competition as well!