Acknowledgments

This book is the result of many people's efforts.

The authors listed for each chapter had primary responsibility for the content provided there and also made significant contributions to other chapters. In addition, Abhishek Chauhan, Vinita Khanna, and Stephanie Bodoff contributed significantly to the chapters in the first edition of this book. Liz Blair was instrumental in developing the initial drafts of the EJB-tier chapter.

We are indebted to Thierry Violleau, Umit Yalcinalp, Kate Stout, Norbert Lindenberg, and Danny Coward for their comprehensive reviews and thoughtful comments on many chapters. We would also like to thank Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart, Jon Ellis, David Bowen, Monica Pawlan, Tim Lindholm, Tom Kast, Mark Hapner, Bill Shannon, John Crupi, Sanjeev Krishnan, Stephanie Bodoff, Dale Green, Mark Roth, Martin Flynn, Brian Beck, Andrey Dikanskiy, and Craig McClanahan for their input.

Our special thanks go to our management, Larry Freeman, Cori Kaylor, Vivek Nagar, and Jeff Jackson, for their whole-hearted support and commitment to the BluePrints program and to this book in particular.

We would never have made it to the end of this project without the support of Suzy Pelouch who did an excellent job at pulling together all the pieces.

The authors of the J2EE specifications and the developers of the reference implementation provided useful input at various points during the development of the J2EE programming model.