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The animal on the cover of Oracle Application Server
10g Essentials is a praying mantis. These large, predatory
insects are widely scattered throughout the world; some of the
approximately 1,500 species are endangered. They have highly
specialized prehensile legs, with elongated front segments that allow
them greater reach. Their long neck-like thorax enables them to swivel
their heads completely to the rear, making them the only insects who
can look directly behind themselves.

The word "mantid" is Greek for "prophet" or "seer." The insects
were so named because the position in which they hold their legs while
at rest or preparing to attack their prey gives them the appearance of
folding their arms in prayer. In African art, the praying mantis is
often depicted as a god or spirit.

Mantises lie in wait and then quickly pounce on their prey,
giving them no time to flee. It is not uncommon for a mantis to hold
onto its prey with one leg while going after another with the
second. They eat almost anything-insects, small reptiles, small birds,
and other mantids. Females often eat their mates during copulation;
once the process has begun, she bites off his head. The male's
copulatory activity isn't curtailed by this, and in some species is
stimulated, because it's controlled by a ganglion center completely
distinct from that controlling the head. By eating her mate, the
female ingests extra protein to nourish her eggs.

A praying mantis will lay 1,000 to 2,000 eggs, protected in
foamy, papery capsules that hold 100 to 200 eggs each. The eggs are
laid in the fall and hatch in the spring. Young mantises immediately
begin hunting and disperse themselves over a wide area, presumably to
avoid fratricide.

Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the production editor and proofreader,
and Audrey Doyle was the copyeditor for Oracle Application
Server 10g Essentials. Matt Hutchinson and Claire Cloutier
provided quality control. Mary Agner provided production
assistance. Ellen Troutman Zaig wrote the index.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a
series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century
engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the
cover layout with QuarkXPress 6.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond
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Melanie Wang designed the interior layout, based on a series
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Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML
technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is
Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono
Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by
Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe
Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher
Bing. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

The online edition of this book was created by the Safari
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