Java Books

Co-authored by the creator of the language itself, this is an in-depth introduction to Java.

A more concise guide to the Java language for developers who want to get started quickly.

Clearly written and meant for programmers with experience in other languages.

A concise tutorial and reference to the standard edition of Java.

Covers more than the previous volume including: streams/files, databases, XML, GUI, 2D graphics, and more.

Co-authored by the creator of the language, this is the detailed technical reference for the language. Not for beginners.

A quick reference book for the Java language. Includes content on common APIs, frameworks, and tools.

Teaches the low level instruction set architecture of the JVM. Useful if you're planning on designing a language for it (or a fun read!)

The original 23 design patterns from the GoF book, with examples in Java.

Learn about common bottlenecks, benchmarking techniques, and the Java HotSpot VM.

Teaches the basics of concurrency and thread safety as well as how to design a concurrent architecture.

Teaches concurrency on the JVM. These techniques can be used with any JVM language - Clojure, JRuby, Groovy, or Scala.

JUnit is the popular unit testing library for Java. This book covers using mocks, in-container testing, database testing, and test automation.

An introduction to the Java language using test driven development.

For advanced Java developers, this book provides a look at Java 7 features and other related tools.

A resource for managing a Java EE 5 environment (from QA to performance tuning).

Hibernate is the popular persistence framework (ORM) for Java. It takes care of loading and saving objects from and to your database.

A concise introduction to Spring - the lightweight Java framework. You'll learn about dependency injection, beans, event handling, and more.

Beginner to Advanced Java