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Thinking in Java
Prentice Hall by Bruce Eckel
0-13-027363-5
Highly recommended as a guide for new Java developers
(or even new object-oriented developers). The author provides a
free download of the book on his website at
http://www.bruceeckel.com/
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Java Examples in a Nutshell
O'Reilly & Associates by David Flanagan
0-596-00039-1
Good reference guide that provides source code snippets
that can easily be used during application development.
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Java Cookbook
O'Reilly & Associates by Ian F. Darwin
0-596-00170-3
An excellent reference book with source examples for Java
development and APIs from collections and file I/O to threads
and javamail.
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Java Internationalization
O'Reilly & Associates by Andrew Deitsch, et al.
0-596-00019-7
Good coverage of internationalization and localization issues
related to building a multi-cultural application. Excellent
introduction to the Unicode Standard that can support
hundreds of character sets for most modern languages
and many ancient ones.
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Java Performance Tuning
O'Reilly & Associates by Jack Shirazi
0-596-00015-4
A great guide to eliminating performance problems in a
Java application both during development and during the
performance testing phase. Examines how a good performance
tuning methodology is different from blindly implementing
numerous performance tweaks.
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