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.