Amazon Web Services

AWS: SDK for Java:
http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava/

books:
O'Reilly Programming Amazon EC2 by Jurg van Vliet and Flavia Paganelli

Programming Amazon Web Services by James Murty

Oracle NoSQL

http://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/entry/oracle_nosql_database_java_based
http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2011/10/overview-of-oracle-nosql-database.html

Effective Java

was surprised to discover that there is a second edition of Effective Java
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/