Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the J2EE licensees for their enthusiasm for this book, and for their spirit of coopetition around the J2EE Platform. Their customers, of course, made this project possible: They were both helpful and encouraging. It has been fun working on a platform with energy and such momentum. Many of these contributors are named as authors of the chapters of this book, but others were just as important in making it happen. In particular, we would like to thank Vince Hunt from Altura; Dave Nyberg from BEA; Eric O'Neill, Ralf Dossman, and Rebecca Cavagnari from Borland; Eric Odell, Elizabeth Dimit, and Anita Osterhaug from Brokat; Mark Herring and Dan Gillaland from Forte; Bob Bickel, Mark Mitchell, and Paige Farsad from HP Bluestone; Jeff Reser from IBM; Patrick Dorsey and Michelle Skorka Gauthier from iPlanet; Moe Fardoost from Oracle; Barbara Heffner from Chen PR; Corina Ulescu and Bruce Kerr from Sun; and Brooke Embry and John Selogy from Navajo Company. Patrick Spencer from Sun Professional Services deserves particular recognition for his enthusiastic participation in the project and his ability to always come through with the goods. Ann Betser, Kim Olson, and Ullon Willis have also lent valuable support.

The publishing team deserves credit for getting this book out on time while coordinating over a dozen contributors. Thanks to Mary Darby and Zana Vartanian from Duarte Design for their support on the graphics. And of course, we're particularly grateful to the Java Series publishing team: Lisa Friendly, Series Editor from Sun, and Mike Hendrickson, Julie Dinicola, and Jacquelyn Doucette from Addison-Wesley.

Sun's J2EE platform marketing team were very helpful to us: Rick Saletta, Ralph Galantine, Glen Martin, Milena Volkova, Cory Kaylor, and Bill Roth. Thanks also to Carla Mott, Elizabeth Blair, Vijay Ramachandran and Jill Smith. The J2EE management team deserves extra credit for keeping the J2EE project on track—Karen Tegan, Connie Weiss, Janet Breuer, David Heisser, Kevin Osborn, Jim Driscoll, Vella Raman, Steve Nahm, Bonnie Kellet, Carla Carlson, Vinay Pai, Kate Stout, Linda Ho, Anita Jindal, Larry Freeman, Peter Walker, Vivek Nagar, and Tricia Jordan.

Finally, special thanks to Jeff Jackson, director of engineering for J2EE, for supporting our “enormous enterprise edition encylopedia” and for understanding that people really do read the manual.