Java Book Reviews

This is the place to find Java book reviews covering all aspects of Java programming, from introductions to specialised topics to J2EE to primers on object oriented development. Also covered are topics dear to the hearts of Java developers, including books on development tools such as Eclipse, XML and web services from a Java perspective to general programming topics and software methodologies.
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Ant: The Definitive Guide by Steve Holzner
Apache Derby - Off To The Races by Zikopoulous, Scott and Baklarz
Apache Jakarta Commons: Reusable Java Components by Will Iverson
Applied Evolutionary Algorithms in Java by Robert Ghanea-Hercock
Beginning Java 2 (JDK 1.4 Edition) by Ivor Horton
Better, Faster, Lighter Java by Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland
Beyond Java by Bruce Tate
Code Complete by Steve McConnell
Code Quality by Diomidis Spinellis
Code Reading by Diomidis Spinellis
Cryptography In The Database by Kevin Kenan
Data Crunching by Greg Wilson
Data Structures With Java by John R. Hubbard and Anita Huray
Design Patterns Explained by A. Shalloway and J. Trott
Eclipse - Building Commercial-Quality Plugins by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel
Eclipse 3 Live by Bill Dudney
Eclipse 3.0 Kick Start by Carlos Valcarcel
Eclipse by Steve Holzner
Eclipse Cookbook by Steve Holzner
Effective Java by Joshua Bloch
The Elements of Java Style
Embedded Ethernet and Internet Complete by Jan Axelson
FindBugs
From Java To C# - A Developer's Guide by Heng Ngee Mok
Google Hacks by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest
Google Hacks, 2 by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest
Google, Amazon, and Beyond by Tom Myers and Alexander Nakhimovsky
Guide to J2EE: Enterprise Java by John Hunt and Chris Loftus
Hardcore Java by Robert Simmons, Jr
Head First Design Patterns by Eric and Elisabeth Freeman
Head First Java by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates
Head First Java, 2e by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates
Holub On Patterns by Allen Holub
IBM Rational ClearCase, Ant and CruiseControl by Kevin Lee
Integrated Solutions With DB2 by Rob Cutlip and John Medicke
Java 6 Platform Revealed by John Zukowski
Java Application Development On Linux by Carl Albing and Michael Schwarz
Java Concurrency In Practice by Brian Goetz
Java Cookbook by Ian Darwin
Java Data Objects by David Jordan and Craig Russell
Java Developers Almanac 1.4 by Patrick Chan
Java EE and .NET Interoperability by Marina Fisher, Ray Lai, Sonu Sharma and Laurence Moroney
Java Examples In A Nutshell by David Flanagan
Java Garage by Eben Hewitt
Java How To Program (5e) by Deitel and Deitel
Java I/O by Elliotte Rusty Hardold
Java In A Nutshell by David Flanagan
Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Neal gafter
Java Regular Expressions by Mehran Habibi
JCreator 3.5
JCreator Pro 2.5
JDiskReport 1.2
jEdit 4.2
Just Java 2 by Peter Van Der Linden
Learning Jakarta Stuts 1.2 by Stephan Wiesner
Learning Java, 3e by Patrick Niemeyer and Jonathan Knudsen
Learning UML 2.0 by Russ Miles and Kim Hamilton
Murach's Java Servlets and JSP by Andrea Steelman and Joel Murach
NetBeans IDE Field Guide by Patrick Keegan et al
NetBeans IDE Field Guide, 2e by Patrick Keegan et al
The No Fluff Just Stuff 2006 Anthology by Neal Ford
The Object-Oriented Thought Process by Matt Weisfeld
Objects First With Java by David J Barnes and Michael Kolling
POJOs In Action by Chris Richardson
Processing XML with Java by Elliotte Rusty Harold
Quartz Job Scheduling Framework by Chuck Cavaness
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler et al
Regular Expression Pocket Reference by Tony Stubblebine
RSSOwl 1.1.3
Spring: A Developer's Notebook by Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland
SQuirreL SQL Client v1.1
Swing Hacks by Joshua Marinacci and Chris Adamson
Teach Yourself J2EE In 21 Days by Bond, Law et al
Teach Yourself Java 2 In 24 Hours by Rogers Cadenhead
Technical Java by Grant Palmer
Test-Driven Devlopment: A J2EE Example by Thomas Hammell
Thinking In Java (4e) by Bruce Eckel
Thinking In Java by Bruce Eckel
Wicked Cool Java by Brian D. Eubanks
XML Hacks by Michael Fitzgerald
XML Primer Plus by Nicholas Chase
XSLT Cookbook by Sal Mangano