Is this book <JAVA in a netshell> good for beginners?

[meili100]

Is this book, 4th ed, a good book?
http://www.amazon.com/Java-Nutshell-Fourth-David-Flanagan/dp/0596002831/

Has anybody read it? I am a C++ programmer and just want to quickly get started with java for simple JAVA programming. Because I don't have time to read at this moment, I just want a book to quickly guide me how to program in JAVA and to get familiar with basic JAVA knowledge, such as how to compile JAVA code in linux, what is JAR, common knowledge of JAVA lib/packages, Java Beans basics, etc.

Would anybody recommend a book? Thanks.

[dickersonka]

I have it, its a pretty descent small book. Here's also a couple links that might be of reference

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~ss/java2c/diffs.html

http://www.d.umn.edu/~gshute/java/c2java.html

[jasimp]

I would recommend the fifth edition of Java in a Nutshell more than the fourth.