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In view of Amazon's patent policy, OliBye does not want to be part of the associate program anymore.

Read Tim O'Reilly's open letter to Jeff Bezo's on the subject. http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2000/amazon_patent.html

"No More Pesos For Mr Bezos"

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Being an open minded site I think I'll keep the amazon links, and leave the choice up to you.

Extreme Programming Explained (Kent Beck) :~

Refactoring : Improving the Design of Existing Code Martin Fowler

Patterns of Software Richard Gabriel:~

Smalltalk, Best Practice Patterns Kent Beck

Concurrent Programming In Java (Doug Lea):~ http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201310090/okchickenltd

Java In A Nutshell 3rd Ed. (David Flanigan):~ http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924878/okchickenltd

Securing Java (Gary McGraw?):You can read this online (http://www.securingjava.com) however when you do, you find its a nice easy book thats worth having a hardcopy of (although bear in mind its not an advanced book on the subject) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/047131952X/okchickenltd

Java 2 Network Security:Haven't read this one, but it gets good reviews. Hopefully someone will give us a personal reference. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130155926/okchickenltd

Prototype-Based Object-Oriented Programming : Concepts, Languages, and Applications (Editors: James Noble, Antero Taivalsaari, Ivan Moore):Prototype-Based Programming is a variety of Object-Oriented Programming that is philosophically similar to XP; in particular, do the simplest thing (with objects) without having to define abstractions (classes) before you can do anything -