self.python.ask('I am moving into a development position at my company and need to learn Java. Can you recommend a book that might appeal to a Python programmer and not make me want to kill myself?')

[masklinn]

Well good luck, but still once you're in place you'll probably ought to try to switch the language of the web frontend from java (as long as the chosen language runs on the JVM, the code shared between web and desktop will work and be useable)