Java in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference for Java Programmers (Nutshell Handbooks)

The bestselling book on Java and the one most often recommemded on the Internet. An incredible value, this comprehensive, quick-reference guide contains descriptions of all of the classes in the Java 1.0 API, with a definitive listing of all methods and variables. It also contains an accelerated introduction to Java for C and C++ programmers who want to learn the language fast. Java in a Nutshell introduces the Java programming language and contains many practical examples that show programmers how to write Java applications and applets. It is also an indispensable quick reference designed to wait faithfully by the side of every Java programmer's keyboard. It puts all the information Java programmers need right at their fingertips.

Java is a new, simple, portable, secure, elegant programming language that promises to make it possible to write entirely new kinds of applications for the Internet. This handbook is an indispensable quick reference designed to lie flat and wait faithfully by the side of every Java programmer's keyboard. It contains an accelerated introduction to Java for C and C++ programmers who want to learn the language fast.