acknowledgments

This book grew from a small second edition of Hibernate in Action into a volume of considerable size. We couldn't have created it without the help of many people.

Emmanuel Bernard did an excellent job as the technical reviewer of this book; thank you for the many hours you spent editing our broken code examples. We'd also like to thank our other reviewers: Patrick Dennis, Jon Skeet, Awais Bajwa, Dan Dobrin, Deiveehan Nallazhagappan, Ryan Daigle, Stuart Caborn, Patrick Peak, TVS Murthy, Bill Fly, David Walend, Dave Dribin, Anjan Bacchu, Gary Udstrand, and Srinivas Nallapati. Special thanks to Linda DeMichiel for agreeing to write the foreword to our book, as she did to the first edition.

Marjan Bace again assembled a great production team at Manning: Sydney Jones edited our crude manuscript and turned it into a real book. Tiffany Taylor, Elizabeth Martin, and Andy Carroll found all our typos and made the book readable. Dottie Marsico was responsible for typesetting and gave this book its great look. Mary Piergies coordinated and organized the production process. We'd like to thank you all for working with us.