Related BooksO'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. |