The following book is required. It covers both Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and Swing GUI components.
Java: How to Program
4th Edition.
by Harvey M. Deitel & Paul J. Deitel
Prentice Hall, August 8, 2001.
You may purchase at Amazon.com by following above link, purchase at your favorite local bookstore, or from the WCTC Bookstore.
This is the best book I've seen so far on J2EE Java Enterprise development:
Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program
1st Edition.
by Paul Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel, Sean E. Santry
Prentice Hall, September 15, 2001.
Other Java books of interest: