Core Java Volume II Advanced Features / Cay S. Horstmann, Prentice Hall 2008
Here is an excellent book on Java. Topics include:
- Streams and Files
- Networking
- Database programming
- XML
- JNDI and LDAP
- Internationalization
- Advanced GUI components
- Java 2D and advanced AWT
- JavaBeans
- Security
- RMI and Web services
- Collections
- Annotations
- Native methods
There is no discussion of generics; see Volume 1 for that. 1000 pages.