Acknowledgments

It is impossible to write a book such as this without the cooperation and help of a vast number of people. In our case, virtually the entire Eclipse Platform team contributed directly to the end result, through conversations, help with code and concepts, bug fixes, or just general support.

Beyond the book, the Eclipse RCP itself would be a mere shadow of what it is without the following people: Nick Edgar, Wassim Melhem, and Pascal Rapicault. Particular thanks go to Doug Pollock, Tom Watson, Kim Horne, Stefan Xenos, Veronika Irvine, Christophe Cornu, DJ Houghton, Tod Creasey, Dorian Birsan, Mazen Faraj, Chris Goldthorpe, Paul Webster, Boris Bokowski, Konrad Kolosowski, and Darin Swanson for taking the time to explain things, talk over ideas, and generally guide us in the right direction on various topics.

We especially want to acknowledge Simon Archer’s amazing reviewing skills. He reviewed the entire manuscript in great detail and provided extremely useful and timely feedback. Simon, you’re the greatest. We were also fortunate to have a large number of people from the community who reviewed various chapters and provided valuable feedback. In particular, we’d like to acknowledge Chris Laffra, Pascal Rapicault, Nick Edgar, Kim Horne, Doug Pollock, Wassim Melhem, Michael Valenta, Rafael Chaves, and Darren Lafond.

Of course, no book project is possible without a publishing team. We were lucky to have Greg Doench as our editor, Elizabeth Ryan as our production contact, and Barbara Wood as our copyeditor. Thanks to the whole crew at Addison-Wesley for making this a relatively painless and quite enjoyable experience.