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Acknowledgments from Brett
The "I" you see in these pages is mefor better or for worse, I came up
with this series, and am thrilled to be able to bring one of the first books
in the series to you. But, that leads me to the enormously talented group
of folks who made that possible.There was a time when I loved writing acknowledgements, because I got
to thank everybody involved in helping me get through another book. Of
course, now I realize that there are so many people I forget to thank, that
I'm a little scared...I guess that's the Oscar-acceptance-paranoia working
itself out. In any case, any book such as this truly is a tremendous effort
by a ton of people, and I couldn't go without at least trying to name most
of them.To Mike Loukides, who edits most of my books (this being the exception),
and Mike Hendrickson, who's just all-around smartthanks for paving
the way for these new, inventive, cool little notebooks. I think you've
done the programming world a real service with them. I need to thank
David Flanagan for doing all the heavy lifting; the Sun folks, especially at
CAP, for letting me see JDK 1.5 early on; and guys like Hans Bergsten,
Bruce Perry, Bob McWhirter, and Steve Holzner for writing good books
and letting me spend less time editing than I deserve to.Finally, in trying to keep things brief (you'll think I'm funny because of
that, right?), I owe the biggest debt to my family, as is always the case.
My wife, Leigh, only gripes occasionally when I'm working at 9:00 at
night. Of course, that's mostly because she's exhausted from chasing the
two bits of inspiration I have; my older son, Dean, and my younger son,
Robbie. When you guys can read, you'll see your names here, so thank
the readers for the college fund, OK?
