Related Books

O'Reilly publishes an entire series of books on Java programming, including several companion books to this one. The companion books are:

Java Examples in a Nutshell

This book contains hundreds of complete, working examples illustrating many common Java programming tasks using the core , enterprise, and desktop APIs. Java Examples in a Nutshell is like Chapter 4 of this book, but greatly expanded in breadth and depth, and with all the code snippets fully fleshed out into working examples. This is a particularly valuable book for readers who learn well by experimenting with existing code.

Java Enterprise in a Nutshell

This book is a succinct tutorial for the Java "Enterprise" APIs such as JDBC, RMI, JNDI, and CORBA. It also cover enterprise tools such as Hibernate, Struts, Ant, JUnit, and XDoclet.

J2ME in a Nutshell

This book is a tutorial and quick reference for the graphics, networking, and database APIs of the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) platform.

You can find a complete list of Java books from O'Reilly at http://java.oreilly.com/. Books that focus on the core Java APIs, as this one does, include:

Learning Java , by Pat Niemeyer and Jonathan Knudsen

This book is a comprehensive tutorial introduction to Java, with an emphasis on client-side Java programming.

Java Swing , by Marc Loy, Robert Eckstein, Dave Wood, James Elliott, and Brian Cole

This book provides excellent coverage of the Swing APIs and is a must-read for GUI developers.

Java Threads , by Scott Oaks and Henry Wong

Java makes multithreaded programming easy, but doing it right can still be tricky. This book explains everything you need to know.

Java I/O , by Elliotte Rusty Harold

Java's stream-based input/output architecture is a thing of beauty. This book covers it in the detail it deserves .

Java Network Programming , by Elliotte Rusty Harold

This book documents the Java networking APIs in detail.

Java Security , by Scott Oaks

This book explains the Java access-control mechanisms in detail and also documents the authentication mechanisms of digital signatures and message digests.

Java Cryptography , by Jonathan Knudsen

This book provides thorough coverage of the Java Cryptography Extension, the javax.crypto.* packages, and cryptography in Java.