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Title: concise, yet disorganized
Review: The Java Developer's Almanac is basically a gigantic listing of the majority of Java 1.2's classes and libraries. The book is lightweight and as dense as your average dictionary, which is great when all you're interested in is finding that certain special method. Unfortunately, it also resembles the first edition of O'Reilly's Java in a Nutshell, which means it could use some improvement. The returned-by and passed-to information (absolutely essential for finding relationships) is stuck way in the back of the book. And all the classes are alphabetized by name rather than package, which leaves a lot of completely unrelated classes next to each other. In short, get O'Reilly's Nutshell first.
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