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This page lists and comments on interesting Java books, Internet sites, and so on.

Early on in my Java career I read "Java in a Nutshell" by David Flanagan (published by O'Reilly and Associates: http://www.oreilly.com) ISBN 1-56592-262-X. As with many of this series, this is really more of a reference book than a tutorial. I found it particularly good for a C/C++ programmer as the first fifty pages or so cover in detail the differences.

There are book reviews for this and other Java books at http://www.amazon.com. I bought the second edition (for Java 1.1). The book is now onto a third edition, for Java 1.2. Java 1.2 covers so much more than Java 1.1 that some subjects have been split into companion volumes.

Here is a list of Java Web sites I found useful:

http://www.javaworld.com/ Java news, tutorials and links
http://java.sun.com/ Sun's Java site. Documentation, software and articles
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech IBM site known for wide range of good Java software
http://www.sun.com/software/linux Java software for Linux