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The Java Class Libraries: An Annotated Reference
Patrick Chan and Rosanna Lee
Addison Wesley (The Java Series)
ISBN 0-201-63458-9; 1660 pages; $59.99 US
This hardcover book covers all the APIs for Java 1.0 with good, simple examples, and is very comprehensive. (The index alone is 143 pages long!) It does not cover the Java language, just the APIs. It's the best Java API reference book in my opinion. I suggest you don't buy the API books (a two-volume set in this same series), but instead buy this: it's cheaper, and has examples!

This is the easiest of the API reference books to navigate through, because the classes are listed alphabetically, regardless of package. I have two copies of the book, it gets borrowed so much.

Update! The 2nd edition, Java 1.1 (Volume 2 only, which covers java.applet, java.awt, and java.beans packages) is now published! See my review.

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