Oh, and the JAVA SOLUTIONS site is at www.cuj.com/jav

Have you taken a look at JAVA SOLUTIONS? This is a publication specifically written for the advanced C/C++ developer who is now learning Java to stay competitive. It comes out 6 times a year, polybagged with the C/C++ Users Journal. So, the readers of CUJ are the ones getting their hands on this info. It's written at the same level of editorial as CUJ, it's just in Java! And there's no watered down info or Java-hype, just working code. Keep an eye out for it. It comes polybagged with C/C++ Users Journal. All the best,