This week, we're delighted to have Javid Jamae and Peter Johnson helping to answer questions about their new book JBoss in Action. They will hang out in the JBoss forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, July 1st 2008 and will end on Friday, July 4th 2008.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Manning.

Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!

This week, we're delighted to have Ganesan Ponnusamy helping to answer questions about their new SCEA 5.0 Training Lab. They will hang out in the Architect Certification (SCEA) forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, June 17th 2008 and will end on Friday, June 20th 2008.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy provided by the publisher, EPractice Labs.

Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!

This week, we're delighted to have Ben Scofield helping to answer questions about their new book Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects. They will hang out in the Object Oriented Scripting forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, June 10th 2008 and will end on Friday, June 13th 2008.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Apress.

Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Ernest reviewed Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer by Venkat Subramaniam and gave it 7 out of 10 horseshoes.

This is a reasonable, if informal, introduction to the Groovy language. Although I haven't had the opportunity to do much with Groovy myself, I suspect that this book wouldn't help if I painted myself into a newbie's corner; I would want a more detailed language guide to refer to. [...] I wanted a description of the Groovy language itself, rather than repeated assurances that it's "just like Java" interspersed with multiple demonstrations of the ways in which it's more assuredly not.

You can read the full review and discuss it here.

This week, we're delighted to have Cameron Wallace McKenzie helping to answer questions about their new book Hibernate Made Easy. They will hang out in the Object Relational Mapping forum.

The promotion starts Tuesday, June 3rd 2008 and will end on Friday, June 6th 2008.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, PulpJava.

Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!