Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I'd like to thank my wife, Birjinia, for her beauty, wisdom, and continued love and support. Over the last few years you have given me your total support and made sacrifices to the cause that I will value forever. Te quiero. Also, to my kids, Alex and Lexeia, who provide little pockets of inspiration to me every day, and to all of my and Birjinia's family, thanks for your support and encouragement.

Also, thanks to everyone at Apress that I have worked with from Steve Anglin and Tom Welsh to the people on the production team such as Nina Goldschlager and Kim Wimpsett (my copy editors), Laura Cheu (production editor), and, in particular, Kylie Johnston (project manager) for keeping the whole thing on track.

To Peter Ledbrook whose insight and contributions have been unbelievably valuable to the community and me. To Marc Palmer for providing a voice of reason, intelligent debate, and continued valuable contribution to Grails. To Alex Tkachman for his inspirational leadership at G2One and continued friendship. To the core members of the Groovy team, such as Guillaume Laforge and Jochen "blackdrag" Theodorou, whose continued responsiveness makes Grails' existence possible.

Also, without the support of the Grails community in general, we wouldn't have gotten very far. So, thanks to all the Grails users, in particular to Sven Haiges and Glen Smith for producing the Grails podcast and screencasts and to all the plugin developers who make Grails a thriving hive of activity.

Last, but most certainly not least, thanks to Rod Johnson, Adrian Coyler, Peter Cooper-Ellis, and everyone at SpringSource for seeing the potential of Grails and granting me the privilege of working for a fantastic company.

Graeme Rocher

I have to start by thanking my lovely wife, Betsy, and our unbelievable boys, Zack and Jake. Thank you all for putting up with me being closed behind the door of my home office many evenings as I worked on this book. You are all the absolute best!

Thanks to Graeme for his support as we worked through this project. It has been a lot of hard work and a whole lot of fun.

I owe a great debt to Alex Tkachman, Graeme Rocher, and Guillaume Laforge. G2One was absolutely the most exciting, challenging, and rewarding professional experience I have ever been involved with. It truly is an honor and a pleasure to know and work with you guys.

Thanks to Matt Taylor for all of the great work we have done together starting back at OCI, then G2One, and now SpringSource.

For more than a decade of professional accomplishments, I have to thank all my friends at OCI. I especially want to thank my friend Dr. Ebrahim Moshiri for the great opportunities and years of support. Thank you, sir. Also, I thank Mario Aquino. There are so many folks at OCI who I enjoyed working with and continue to enjoy a friendship with, none of them more than Mario. Thanks for everything, man. The next one is on me.

Thanks to the whole team at Apress. I appreciate all of your hard work and patience. Thanks to Kylie Johnston (project manager) for helping us navigate through the whole thing.

I also have to thank Rod Johnson and the whole team at SpringSource. We have a lot of really exciting stuff ahead of us, and I truly look forward to it.

Jeff Brown