The Complete Reference Java 2(5th Edition)

When I needed to learn the Java programming language very quickly for work, I read many reviews and narrowed down my search to handful of few books. I looked at copies of my final possible choices in a local bookstore and finally purchased Herbert Schildt's "Java 2: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition" and have absolutely no regrets.

Along with this book, I realized that I would also need a more comprehensive reference book detailing the multitude of Java classes designed for many purposes.

To this end, I chose Herbert Schildt's "Java 2: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition" not only for its extensive library, but also because of Herbert Schildt's wonderful writing that is easy to read and understand quickly.
1 The Genesis of Java      
2 An Overview of Java   
3 Data Types, Variables, and Arrays    
4 Operators     
5 Control Statements                
6 Introducing Classes                
7 A Closer Look at Methods and Classes   
8 Inheritance                    
9 Packages and Interfaces           
10 Exception Handling                
11 Multithreaded Programming     
12 I/O, Applets, and Other Topics
13 String Handling
14 Exploring java.lang   
15 java.util Part 1: The Collections Framework   
16 java.util Part 2: More Utility Classes 
17 Input/Output: Exploring java.io 
18 Networking                   
19 The Applet Class                
20 Event Handling                  
21 Introducing the AWT: Working with Windows, Graphics, and Text     
22 Using AWT Controls, Layout Managers, and Menus  
23 Images               
24 New I/O, Regular Expressions, and Other Packages
25 Java Beans 
26 A Tour of Swing    
27 Servlets    
28 Migrating from C++ to Java