1.The Essentials
2.The Desirables
3.Other Books
4.The Best Book

• Java 2: The Complete Reference by Petrick Naughton  (Tata McGraw Hill Publication)
  
  An excellent & must have book for beginners, but as far as the new features of Java 2 are concerned, the book is far from complete.
  
  
• Java 2 Exam Prep by Bill Brogdens
   The best bang for you buck.
  It is a much larger book that includes a CD which contains a mock exam
  
  
  
  
• A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification by Mughal and Rolf Rasmussen
  An excellent book with plenty of example questions and exercises.
  
  
• Java 2 Certification Guide by Jamie Jaworski
  
  
  
• The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide by Roberts and Heller (BPB Publication)
  
  This is the Best book,for the certification Exams with lots of Examples & Excercise
  
  
  

• Java In a Nutshell 2nd edition(By O'Reilly)
  
  In the move to JDK1.1 Java in a nutshell expanded from one slim book to a slightly fatter book plus a companion book called Java Examples in a Nutshell. This is handy to have but bear in mind that you can download the source for the examples over the net.
  
  Other books by O'Reilly:
  Exploring Java 2nd Edition
  java Fundamental Classes Reference
  Java AWT Reference
  Java language Reference 2nd edition
  
  
• Core Java Volume 1 Fundamentals by Horstmann and Cornell
  
  With the move from JDK 1.0 to 1.1 this book grew from one volume to two substantial books. Vol I include network programming, JDBC, RMI, distributed objects, Java Beans, internationalisation, security, native methods.One exam topic that volume 2 might be worth buying for is threads. One of the nice features of Core Java is that there are constant sidebars indicating how Java compares with C++ and Visual Basic.
  
  
• Just Java and Beyond by Peter van der Linden
  
  Peter van der Linden works for Sun and is the creator and maintainer of the Java Programmers FAQ. He contributes regularly to the various comp.lang.java newsgroups. Peters background is in C/C++ so language comparisons are with those language The book is nicely laid out with plenty of use of icons and it assumes you are already understand programming concepts. There is plenty of background explanations to the language such as why IBM is so keen on Java and book suggestions. There is plenty of Dalmation based humour, but it breaks up the book rather than interfering.

• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
  
  Bruce Eckel is a technical author of van der Linden status, ie real good. As the title implies he attempts to get inside a mind set appropriate to the language rather than simply explain the mechanics. You probably need to already understand the language before you get a handle on this book, but it is worth it. Bruce makes this book available for download from his site at www.bruceekel.com in various formats including HTML. However it is well worth the money for the convenience of having it on your bookshelf. There is plenty of information not appropriate to the exam studies such as Corba and RMI but his coverage of the basics is excellent. He does a better job of covering collections such as Vectors than most other sources, and his description of the new Java 2 Collections is excellent.
  
  
• The Sun Java Tutorial
  
  Its available as a free download from Sun from http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

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