Acknowledgments | Java for ColdFusion Developers

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our own centrality in the cosmos .

”Stephen Jay Gould

There are many people whose labor contributed to this book. I am grateful for their thought, energy, and care. I am proud to call them my friends , my family, and my colleagues, and I am pleased to acknowledge their considerable work.

This book was improved tremendously by the labor of its technical reviewers, whose knowledge and perspicuity caught many errors, omissions, and oversights. They worked even through writing their own books, changing jobs, having babies, and moving, and I appreciate their efforts.

Thanks to Scott Stirling. Your careful, diligent readings caught subtle shades in the text that only a watchmaker could see, and I am grateful for your work. You straightened out several technical issues with clarity and detail. You really raised the bar for this book.

Thanks to Ray Camden. I appreciate your help in sorting out the diverse relationships between ColdFusion and Java, and your review work very much improved the communicativeness of the book.

Thanks to Susan Matteson. In working through the code examples, you made sure that everything came together, and you didn't allow any shortcuts. You made sure that the book does what it purports to do, and I'm grateful.

I am grateful to the people with whom it is my pleasure to work at CyberTrails. Thank you to Ted Taylor, Brian Aden, and Brad Senff for being very supportive of this book; I could not have done it without each of you being so understanding and accommodating . Thank you to Deb Klein, who helped get me the best Java training early on ”even in tight times.

Thank you to Mike O'Brien and Erin Martin for sweating out the Tomcat warp connector with me. Thank you to David Schoenecker and the Asian Prince for making our department so fun. Thank you to Vic Miller for programming Java and ColdFusion with me and hacking into unchartered territory all the time. The grape soda is on me.

Thanks to Howard Young, Jim Dewar, Richard Moore, Alan Chick, and everyone at CyberTrails who works hard and makes my life inestimably better.

Thank you to Hal Helms for writing such a generous foreword to the book. Your writing and teaching are terrific , and I appreciate your work.

Thank you to entrepreneur and bon vivant John DePoe, for laying the most adventure-filled network on the Navajo Nation with me. Thank you to sys admin Garrick Brooks for taking extra time to introduce me to ColdFusion years ago. You both changed my life and helped make this possible.

Thank you to the fantastic people at Prentice Hall. I am so pleased and proud to work with John Neidhart. Thank you for your patience with me in finishing up this third title in one year with Prentice Hall. I feel so lucky and happy to be working with such a wonderful editor. You kept things rolling through a great number of changes in the lineup. Your moxie, your sense of humor, and your honesty are fantastic. I am grateful to be able to work with you.

Thank you to Editor-in-Chief Mark Taub, Brian Gambrel, Executive Marketing Manager, and to the copyeditors and hard-working salespeople who get the job done.

Thank you to John and Avis Hewitt for teaching me to read and write and for showing me that books are a best thing.

Thank you to Alison Brown. I could not have done it without you. Thank you for taking care of me, for talking to me, and for helping me be a better writer, better programmer, better sweetheart, better father, and better person every day. Throw some heat.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

”Rebecca West

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