Related Books (Java in a Nutshell)

0.3. Related Books

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. publishes an entire series of books on Java programming. These books include Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell and Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, which, as mentioned earlier, are companions to this book.

A related reference work is the Java Power Reference. It is an electronic Java quick reference on CD-ROM that uses the Java in a Nutshell style. But since it is designed for viewing in a web browser, it is fully hyperlinked and includes a powerful search engine. It is wider in scope but narrower in depth than the Java in a Nutshell books. The Java Power Reference covers all the APIs of the Java 2 platform, plus the APIs of many standard extensions. But it does not include tutorial chapters on the various APIs, nor does it include descriptions of the individual classes.

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

Exploring Java, by Pat Niemeyer and Joshua Peck: A comprehensive tutorial introduction to Java, with an emphasis on client-side Java programming.
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: Thorough coverage of the Java Cryptography Extension, the javax.crypto.* packages, and everything you need to know about cryptography in Java.
Developing Java Beans, by Robert Englander: A complete guide to writing components that work with the JavaBeans API.