I ordered a copy of Java in a Nutshell a couple months ago and it finally arrived today. It looks pretty good but as my office mates pointed out, what size nutshell are they referring to? The thing weighs in at over 1200 pages!
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The book seems bigger and heavier than my note PC. A heavy reference book, but not a PC, is likely to be a burden of mobile programming when I travel to Scotland by train at the end of this month. Let me know if the book is good or not!
It’s pretty good actually – the first half is all about the language updated for Java 5.0 and makes a good reference for all those little subtle points a person forgets (like when to use an abstract class vs an interface). The second half though is the API for most of the Java framework (java.io, java.lang etc). I don’t know if that will be useful or not since most of it is built into the type prompting of Eclipse. We’ll see!