2005 JDJ Readers' Choice Awards - Best Java Book Nominees:

Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere Second Edition (IBM Press);
Building Websites with OpenCms (Packt Publishing); 
Core Java 2, Volume I-Fundamentals, 7/e by Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell (Sun Microsystems Press);
Core JavaServer Faces by David Geary and Cay Horstmann (Sun Microsystems Press);
Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-Ins (Instantiations, Inc.);
 Effective Enterprise Java by Ted Neward (Addison-Wesley);
Enterprise Java Security: Building Secure J2EE Applications, (Addison-Wesley),
Enterprise Messaging Using JMS and IBM WebSphere (IBM Press);
Enterprise Service Bus Sonic (Software Corp.);
 Hibernate in Action (Manning Publications Co.);
 IBM WebSphere and Lotus: Implementing Collaborative Solutions (IBM Press);
IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration (IBM Press);
J2EE 1.4 BluePrints: Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform (Sun Microsystems Press);
J2EE Web Services by Richard Monson-Haefel (Addison-Wesley);
 Java Studio Creator Field Guide (Sun Microsystems Press);
Java Transaction Processing (Prentice Hall PTR);
JavaDesktop RiA-SoA (sandrasf.com);
Just Java 2, Sixth Edition by Peter van der Linden (Prentice Hall PTR);
MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture:Practice and Promise (Compuware Corp.);
 Pro Jakarta Commons (Apress);
 The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace (Apress);
 The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse (IBM Press);
The JFC Swing Tutorial, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley).