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 * [Category wise tutorials - J2EE](https://www.mkyong.com/all-tutorials-on-mkyong-com/) - Yong Mook Kim
 * [Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, 2nd Ed. (2003)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210126062450/https://pdf.coreservlets.com/) - Marty Hall, Larry Brown *(:card_file_box: archived)*
 * [Data Structures in Java for the Principled Programmer (2007)](https://web.archive.org/web/20190302130416/http://dept.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/JavaStructures/Book_files/JavaStructures.pdf) - Duane A. Bailey (PDF) *(:card_file_box: archived)*
+* [Effective Java, Third Edition](https://ia801009.us.archive.org/16/items/effectivejava2017addisonwesley/Effective%20Java%20%282017%2C%20Addison-Wesley%29.pdf) - Joshua Bloch (PDF) *(:card_file_box: archived)*
 * [Essential Java](https://www.programming-books.io/essential/java/) - Krzysztof Kowalczyk, StackOverflow Contributors
 * [Google's Java Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html)
 * [Introduction to Computer Science "booksite"](https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/cs/) - Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne (HTML)