JavaRanch Book Promotions
2004 Winners
Date Title Publisher Winners Request Sent to Publisher
January 6 The Art of Java
by Herb Schildt, James Holmes		 Computing McGraw-Hill -Ilja Preuss
-Ko Ko Naing
-ben riches
-John Ipe 		January 29
January 13 Agile Database Techniques
by Scott Ambler		 John Wiley & Sons -Lasse Koskela
-Pradeep Bhat
-Jeff Langr
-Ilja Preuss 		January 29
January 20 Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere, Second Edition
by Kyle Brown		 Addison-Wesley Pub Co -surasak lee
-Rick Portugal
-Sondra Colagrossi
-Robert Paris 		February 7
Enterprise J2ME: Developing Mobile Java Applications
by Michael Yuan		 Prentice Hall -Jim Crawford
-Christian Wolf
-Billy Tsai
-Dan Greening 		February 7
January 27 J2EE Web Services
by Richard Monson-Haefel		 Addison-Wesley Pub Co -S Kumar
-Yashnoo lyo
-Pradeep Bhat
-Lasse Koskela 		February 7
Servlets and JSP: The J2EE Web Tier
by Jayson Falkner, Kevin R Jones		 Addison-Wesley Pub Co -Ko Ko Naing
-Anushe Khan
-Prakash Dwivedi
-robyne vaughn 		February 7
February 3 Developing J2EE Applications with WebSphere Studio: IBM Certified Enterprise Developer (IBM Certification Study Guides)
by Howard Kushner		 MC Press -Sanjay P Kumar
-Nicholas Cheung
-Jacky Chow
-Ko Ko Naing 		March 1
February 10 Art of Java Web Development: Frameworks and Best Practices
by Neal Ford		 Manning -Alex Cano
-David Yutzy
-Chris Mathews
-Jacky Chow 		March 15
February 17 Pragmatic Unit Testing
by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas		 Pragmatic Bookshelf -Gian Franco Casula
-Andrew Marshall
-Robin Clark
-Jeanne Boyarsky 		March 1
February 24 J2EE Platform Web Services
by Ray Lai		 Prentice Hall PTR -Balaji Loganathan
-Guadalupe Ortiz
-Raghu Mat
-Luigi Rubino 		March 31
Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML
by Elliotte Rusty Harold		 Addison-Wesley Pub Co -Vivek S Mongolu
-Romulu Romu
-jacob nikom
-Jan Jani 		March 3
March 2 Mastering JavaServer Faces
by Bill Dudney		 John Wiley & Sons -David Peterson
-Kishan Kumar
-Nicholas Cheung
-Bear Bibeault 		March 31
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March 9 JavaServer Pages, Third Edition
by Hans Bergsten		 O'Reilly -Jeroen Wenting
-Al Kaiser
-Raul Martinez
-Lasse Koskela 		March 31
March 16 Struts Survival Guide
by Srikanth Shenoy and Nithin Mallya		 ObjectSource Publications -Fabrizio Gianneschi
-Michal Bienek
-Michael Cleary
-john mattucci 		March 31
March 23 .NET & J2EE Interoperability
by Dwight Peltzer		 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media -Byron Estes
-frisode jonge
-Ulas Ergin
-Andreas Frei 		March 31
March 30 Professional Jakarta Struts
by James Goodwill and Richard Hightower		 Wrox -sonali rao
-Kishore Dandu
-Mcgill smith
-Lasse Koskela 		April 19
April 6 Whizlabs SCBCD Exam Simulator Whizlabs -Ko Ko Naing
-Dale Seng
-Sujatha Kumar
-Hanna Habashy 		April 19
April 13 Java Regular Expressions
by Mehran Habibi		 APress -Helen Thomas
-Barry Andrews
-Tony Morris
-Jeroen Wenting 		May 14
Pro Jakarta Commons
by Harshad Oak		 APress -karthik Guru
-friso dejonge
-Nathaniel Stoddard
-Frankie Cha 		May 14
April 20 Enterprise Java 2 Security: Building Secure and Robust J2EE Applications
by Marco Pistoia		 Addison-Wesley Pub Co -Mcgill smith
-Nicholas Cheung
-rollin park
-bas duijzings 		May 5
Enterprise Patterns and MDA : Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML
by Jim Arlow and Ila Neustadt		 Addison-Wesley Pub Co -Pradeep Bhat
-C Kutler
-HS Thomas
-Karel KoboojBot 		May 5
April 27 Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development
by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang		 Prentice Hall PTR -Lasse Koskela
-Valentin Crettaz
-friso dejonge
-Vinicius Boson 		May 14
The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs, Second Edition
by Kathy Walrath and Sharon Zakhour		 Addison-Wesley Pub Co -Manish Hatwalne
-mo robertson
-Michael Dunn
-Debashish Chakrabarty 		May 14
May 4 Whizlabs IBM J2EE Certification (Test 484) Exam Simulator Whizlabs -bas duijzings
-Nicholas Cheung
-Erik Bengtson
-sunitha raghu 		May 10
May 11 Whizlabs WebLogic Certification Exam Simulator Whizlabs -Pourang Emami
-Ko Ko Naing
-Javoso Torso
-sunitha raghu 		June 1
May 18 Struts: The Complete Reference
by James Holmes		 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media -subbu raman
-Ko Ko Naing
-Andy Cooke
-Bhuvana Bala 		June 1
May 25 Tapestry in Action
by Howard M. Lewis Ship		 Manning -Mcgill smith
-Chris Norris
-Geoff Longman
-Looluo Zhu 		Yes
June 1 JavaServer Faces
by Hans Bergsten		 O'Reilly & Associates -Anurag Mishra
-Suman Chaudhuri
-bengt hammarlund
-Marc Peabody 		July
June 8 Whizlabs SCWCD 1.4 Certification Exam Simulator
by Sivasundaram Umapathy and Seema Manivannan		 Whizlabs -akilan irudaya raja
-JF Tordella
-surasak lee
-Tejas Bavishi 		July 27
June 15 Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services
by Thomas Erl		 Prentice Hall PTR -Greg T Robertson
-Balaji Loganathan
-Lasse Koskela
-danny liu 		July 27
June 22 Eclipse Live
by Bill Dudney		 SourceBeat -Sonny Pondrom
-Ko Ko Naing
-Michael Sullivan
-Leslie Chaim 		July 27
June 29 Java Demystified
by Jim Keogh		 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media -Nitin Shivaram
-Santosh Ram
-Barry Gaunt
-Junilu Lacar 		August 20
July 6 The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace
by Rob Warner		 Apress -Gregg Bolinger
-Ko Ko Naing
-Alex Alexis
-Axel Janssen 		August 20
July 13 XSLT 2.0 Web Development
by Dmitry Kirsanov		 Prentice Hall PTR -Gian Franco Casula
-shaun ramos
-Ali Pope
-Ankur Srivastava 		August 20
July 20 J2EE 1.4: The Big Picture
by Solveig Haugland, Mark Cade, and Anthony Orapallo		 Prentice Hall PTR -somkiat puisungnoen
-Muzammil Koker
-Alvin chew
-Mukesh Agrawal 		August 24
July 27 Pro Jakarta Struts, Second Edition
by John Carnell		 Apress -somkiat puisungnoen
-Lasse Koskela
-Junilu Lacar
-Nicola Guy 		Yes
August 3 Whizlabs SCMAD Certification Exam Simulator
by Sathyanarayanan Srinivasan and Sivasundaram Umapathy		 Whizlabs -Theodore Casser
-Chris Gastin
-Lex Grenmar
-Ko Ko Naing 		August 11
August 10 JUnit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing
by J. B. Rainsberger		 Manning -Ernest Friedman-Hill
-somkiat puisungnoen
-Gian Franco Casula
-siu chung man 		August 20
August 10 Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web
by Thomas B. Passin		 Manning -somkiat puisungnoen
-Jeroen Wenting
-Lasse Koskela
-Thomas Paul 		August 24
August 17 Whizlabs WebSphere (287) Exam Simulator
by Vijay S. Rathore		 Whizlabs -David Ulicny
-Kingsly Thewdar
-Nicholas Cheung
-Ben Ritchie 		August 24
August 24 Java 2 v5.0 (Tiger) New Features
by Herbert Schildt		 McGraw-Hill Osborne Media -Ko Ko Naing
-Ben Wood
-J. B. Rainsberger
-Mike Rutgers 		Yes
August 31 Hibernate in Action
by Christian Bauer and Gavin King		 Manning -Scott Ambler
-Ahmed Talokdar
-Joao Vitor Guimaraes
-karthik Guru 		Yes
August 31 JavaServer Faces in Action
by Kito D. Mann		 Manning -Prashanth Joisha
-JiaPei Jen
-Ko Ko Naing
-Vladislav Semenov 		Yes
September 7 Refactoring to Patterns
by Joshua Kerievsky		 Addison-Wesley Pub Co -Ali Pope
-Mcgill Smith
-Ilja Preuss
-Ko Ko Naing 		Yes
September 14 How Tomcat Works
by Budi Kurniawan and Paul Deck		 BrainySoftware.com -Al Korov
-Ramaswamy Srinivasan
-Hanna Habashy
-Mike Curwen 		Yes
September 21 Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps
by Mike Clark		 The Pragmatic Programmers -Craig Demyanovich
-Bear Bibeault
-Ilja Preuss
-David Ulicny 		Yes
September 28 Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins
by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel		 Addison-Wesley Professional -Jeanne Boyarsky
-Kishore Dandu
-Ali Pope
-Roland Schnabel 		Yes
September 28 Just Java(TM) 2 (6th Edition)
by Peter van der Linden		 Pearson Education -Gregg Bolinger
-Erre ced
-Ryan Ryszka
-Mark Griffin 		Yes
October 5 Java Testing and Design: From Unit Testing to Automated Web Tests
by Frank Cohen		 Pearson Education -Mary Wallace
-Lasse Koskela
-Valentin Crettaz
-Carol Enderlin 		Yes
October 5 Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising		 Addison-Wesley Professional -Pradeep Bhat
-Ilja Preuss
-Carol Enderlin
-siu chung man 		Yes
October 12 Better, Faster, Lighter Java
by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland		 O'Reilly -Pradeep Bhat
-seshu palmanti
-Jaffery Rab
-David Harkness 		Yes
October 12 JUnit Pocket Guide
by Kent Beck		 O'Reilly -Ali Pope
-Lasse Koskela
-Pradeep Bhat
-J. B. Rainsberger 		Yes
October 12 Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition
by Ian F. Darwin		 O'Reilly -Stan James
-Ko Ko Naing
-Carol Enderlin
-Stefan Wagner 		Yes
October 19 Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook
by Brett McLaughlin		 O'Reilly -Sue Richards
-Layne Lund
-Ernest Friedman-Hill
-Corey McGlone 		Yes
October 19 Head First Servlets & JSP
by Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates		 O'Reilly -Romy Huang
-Roger Yates
-Nicholas Cheung
-Naina Si 		Yes
October 19 Java Threads, 3rd Edition
by Scott Oaks and Henry Wong		 O'Reilly -Ilja Preuss
-Ernest Friedman-Hill
-John Ryan
-James Turner 		Yes
October 26 Whizlabs XML Certification (IBM Test 141) Simulator
by Hari Vignesh Padmanabham		 Whizlabs -Mala Gupta
-Serge Adzinets
-Lasse Koskela
-Vinicius Boson 		Yes
October 26 Spring Live
by Matt Raible		 SourceBeat.com -Vis Deo
-Shawn Hanna
-karthik Guru
-A Mohammed 		Yes
October 26 The Object Primer, 3rd Edition
by Scott Ambler		 Cambridge University Press -Sathya Srinivasan
-Stan James
-Ilja Preuss
-Stefan Bell 		Yes
November 2 Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies
by Brian Sam-Bodden and Christopher M. Judd		 Apress -Lasse Koskela
-Mary Wallace
-Ondra Babuljak
-Marilyn de Queiroz 		Yes
November 2 Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration
by Erin Mulder and Michael Wessler		 Apress -Nicholas Cheung
-Jeanne Boyarsky
-Sam Phillip
-David Ulicny 		Yes
November 2 Practical WebObjects
by Charles Hill and Sacha Mallais		 Apress -Lasse Koskela
-Derick Potgieter
-usha mocherla
-Marc Peabody 		Yes
November 9 Kodo JDO
by Patrick Linskey and Robin Roos		 SolarMetric -John M Brown
-Charles Hasegawa
-Bear Bibeault
-Thomas Whitmore 		Yes
November 9 Building Portals with the Java Portlet API
by Jeff Linwood and David Minter		 Apress -Taka Chan
-David Ulicny
-Junilu Lacar
-Anand Gondhiya 		Yes
November 9 Pro Jakarta Velocity: From Professional to Expert
by Rob Harrop		 Apress -Brian Sam-Bodden
-Lasse Koskela
-Julia Reynolds
-Ali Pope 		Yes
November 16 Core Java 2, Volume I - Fundamentals (7th Edition)
by Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell		 Prentice Hall PTR -Jigar Gosar
-Rob Singley
-Peter Chase
-Alan Moore 		Yes
November 16 Working Effectively with Legacy Code
by Michael Feathers		 Prentice Hall PTR -Ilja Preuss
-C Kutler
-Ali Pope
-Marlene Miller 		Yes
November 30 Head First Design Patterns
by Elisabeth A. Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra		 O'Reilly -Michael Feathers
-Sathya Srinivasan
-Mark Spritzler
-Mike Farnham 		Yes
December 7 Whizlabs Online Java Certification Training: SCJP 1.4
by Seema Manivannan		 Whizlabs -jim lan
-arden liu
-Peter Rooke
-Mike Gershman 		Yes
December 7 Java Network Programming, Third Edition
by Elliotte Rusty Harold		 O'Reilly -Alex Wolf
-Stan James
-Ko Ko Naing
-Paul Santa Maria 		Yes
December 14 Core JavaServer Faces
by David Geary and Cay Horstmann		 Pearson Education -Ritchie Warsi
-Shawn Xie
-Paneer Tikka
-K Varun 		Yes

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