Symantec Visual Cafe
Addison-Wesley, 1997
ISBN 3-8273-1141-1
Like many other programmers, I've been fascinated by JAVA. It's a nice, object-oriented language which offers many advanced features. JAVA also has several class libraries which greatly ease common programming tasks, like multi-threading and graphics programming. The book explains all the major language features and shows how to create both simple and fairly complex programs (i.e. animated graphics, component development, and much more).
Visual Cafe is an integrated development environment for JAVA. It emphasizes on a form-based, component-oriented approach like DELPHI or VISUAL BASIC. Therefore, it's very easy to create JAVA applets and applications with a sophisticated GUI interface by using pre-defined components, placing them on the appropriate form window and connecting them using the interaction wizard.