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:
A comprehensive tutorial introduction to Java, with an emphasis on client-side Java programming.
Java makes multithreaded programming easy, but doing it right can still be tricky. This book explains everything you need to know.
Java's stream-based input/output architecture is a thing of beauty. This book covers it in the detail it deserves.
This book documents the Java networking APIs in detail.
This book explains the Java access-control mechanisms in detail and also documents the authentication mechanisms of digital signatures and message digests.
Thorough coverage of the Java Cryptography Extension, the javax.crypto.* packages, and everything you need to know about cryptography in Java.
A complete guide to writing components that work with the JavaBeans API.
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