Please recommend a best practices book

Can someone recommend a core java best practices book.
I have read several books and yet when someone says use a tagging interface... I just look at them and wonder what they are talking about.. then I google and find out.. There may be several such terms that I am not aware of... How do I learn about these terms like POJOs etc.. People keep using words like POJOs and then I find out its nothing but a java class object.. but how do I know that?
Someone once said "You know only 5%, 20% you know you dont know, 75% you dont even know that you dont know".. Which book can give me that 75% ?
I know basic datastructures etc.. but when to apply what is what I want to learn.
A book which talks about when to use which datastructure, good usage of interface examples, and best practices that are used in real application production environment. Can someone please recommend a good book like that ? Is there any ? Real cases?

Maybe this should be a different thread but how do
programmers organize folders for projects?
Every company has a common java classes shared by
programmers I presume? That must be located in a
central access place and I am curious how they
organize folders?Folders? Maybe. Version control system, with a "commons" tree? Better.
Have a look at Matt Raible's AppFuse. It's a fine example organization for a project.
As for me, I do something like this:
I build with Ant: http://ant.apache.org
/source is the directory where anything I check out of version control will go.
Under that:
/java - .java source files.
/lib - 3rd party JARs (e.g., JDBC drivers, etc.)
/jsp - JSPs
/etc - deployment descriptors, like web.xml, etc.
/xml - XML files
/xsl - XSL stylesheets
/html - HTML files
/css - cascading stylesheets
/sql - SQL scripts for creating, altering, populating relational tables.
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