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Buying the three Java Class Libraries books?

 
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I would like yo know if the content on these books is only what can be read in the API or would I been able to find significant more content.
I will be taking the SCJP in a near future. Nowadays I am getting background about Java programming.
I have already Thinking in Java and Inside the Java 2 Virtual Machine. But I haven�t been able to find (nowhere) an accurate description of, for instance, the field GridBagConstraints.RELATIVE or REMAINDER, thus I had to spend a while checking with my own programs.
I would like to be a Java Programmer in the future, so I think that if I bought these books now I will be using them for the exam and the future. On the other hand, if these books were not adding significant content to the API it would be a great waste of time and money that it wouldn�t encourage me to continue in the hard work.
Please would you so nice to reply clearing my doubt?

I am posting this here because I hope to find someone who owns the books. It is important to me to decide to buy the books or not, as soon as possible.
 
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Maybe some reviews may help a bit
From the Javaranch bunkhouse
http://www.javaranch.com/bunkhouse/bunkhouseBeginning.jsp
From Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201310023/ref=ase_javasoftsunmicroA/002 -5575836-8686469
Sounds like a good book. Moreover, a good amount of methods in the online API are not very well explained sometimes. I found some explanations to some methods that I couldn't figure out in the online API. And for each method, there is an example (that may help).
The drawback, in my opinion, is that it covers 1.1 stuff and not 1.2
The choice is yours..
HIH
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Valentin Crettaz
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform
[This message has been edited by Valentin Crettaz (edited November 16, 2001).]
 
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