Java Text References
'The Java Certification Study Guide', Simon Roberts & Philip Heller.
The Java 1.2 Developer's Handbook', Simon Roberts & Philip Heller
'Java in a Nutshell', Dave Flanagan
'Thinking in Java', Bruce Eckel
'The Java Tutorial', Mary Campione et. al.
The Java Certification
Exam Guide', Barry Boone
'The Java
Handbook', Patrick Naughton.
Core Java' by Cay. Horstmann & Gary Cornell.
'Mastering Java' John Zukowski
'Just Java' by Peter Van der Linden
'JDBC API Tutorial and Reference', White Fisher Catell Hamilton and Hapner
'JFC Unleashed' by Michael Foley and
Mark McCulley
'Using Enterprise Java' by Jeff Schneider and Rajeev Arora.
'Design Patterns' by Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Vlissides
'Advanced Java Development for
Enterprise Applications' Clifford Berg
'Java 2 Network Security' Marco Pistoia
et. al.
Additional References
'A Quick Tour Of the CORBA Security Service by David Chizmadia
Introduction to CORBA, Alex
Chaffee & Bruce Martin
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/corba/index.html
'The Java Language
Environment' James Gosling & Henry McGilton
http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/index.html
"The Hardware Bible", W.Rosch
'Running Linux', Welch, Dalheimer & Kaufman,
'Networking Complete', Sybex
'A Brief History of the
Internet',
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html#Introduction
'A Brief History of SQL', Jean Anderson
'Fundamentals of RMI' by Govind
Seshardri.