GlassFish and MySQL Student Contest - Winners announced

href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/glassfish_and_mysql_student_contest">GlassFish
and MySQL student contest winners are href="http://blogs.sun.com/students/entry/mysql_and_glassfish_student_reviews">announced!



Kolli Bharath from href="http://www.daiict.ac.in/daiict/index.html">Dhirubhai
Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology,
India (review,
href="https://projectroshni.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList">project)
and Tomas Augusto
Muller, Universidade
de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil ( href="http://tomasmuller.com.br/2008/10/21/powering-what-you-dont-see-with-glassfish-and-mysql/">review,
project)
won the grand prize of $500 each. There are href="http://blogs.sun.com/students/entry/mysql_and_glassfish_student_reviews">7
second prize winners of $250 each.



Congratulations to all the winners!



Meet some of the contest participants href="http://blogs.sun.com/students/entry/mysql_and_glassfish_reviews_continued">here,
href="http://blogs.sun.com/students/entry/don_t_miss_these_reviews">here,
href="http://blogs.sun.com/students/entry/more_reviews_from_the_mysql">here,
and href="http://blogs.sun.com/students/entry/let_the_students_guide_you">here.



There were lots of great entries and picking one was a tough decision.
But luckily the process was simple and clearly defined for all the
judges. Each submission was assigned numbers between 1-100 in
8 pre-defined criteria and then a winner was picked. Now, don't ask us
about the total marks for each entry or the winning margin ;)



Thanks to all the judges for reviewing the entries!



Here are some guidelines I followed during the review:

• I looked at the blog and project website, how do I get
  started ?
• Is the project site well structured, with links to code,
  docs, etc ?
• Is there an installation/user manual ?
• Is the application a stereotype
• Is testing (unit, integration, stress, reliability,
  performance and others) integral part of the project ?
• Is it a simple JSP/Servlet application or any creative use
  of GlassFish ? For example, is the participant using Web services,
  Grizzly Comet, Rails, Grails, Admin console, Monitoring or any such
  features.
• Any usability or functionality bugs filed during project
  development ?
• How useful is the application in context ?
• Any NetBeans- or Eclipse-GlassFish integration features
  used ?

So if you plan to participate in any contest in the future, keep these
points in mind :)



If you are interested in advertising your contest entry on this blog,
leave a comment on this blog!



Watch out blogs.sun.com/students
for upcoming contests.



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