Resources for the Java Programming Language
The original resource was The Java Language Specification by Sun Microsystems, Inc., March 1995 updated to October 1995 but superceded by Gosling and Arnold Book
http://www.javasoft.com web site has plenty of references including
- Tutorial: http://www.javasoft.com/books/Series/Tutorial/index.html
- Books:http://www.javasoft.com/java.sun.com/aboutJavaSoft/book-news.html
- Collection of Applets: http://www.gamelan.com
Most of the books cited earlier have CDROM's with examples and the JDK.