Acknowledgments

WE would like to thank the following individuals who, on short notice, took the time to review the early draft of the book and provided us with invaluable feedback: Mark Hapner, Bill Shannon, Rahul Sharma, Rick Cattell, George Copeland, Susan Cheung, Liane Acker, Jim Frentress, Moshe Sambol, and John Stearns. We also want to thank the following individuals for reviewing the final draft of the book and for providing feedback: Liane Acker, Ken Nordby, Jorgen Thelin, Marc Fleury, Jim Healy, and Jim Frentress.

We especially want to thank Walter Jenny and Rahul Sharma. Walter's programming brought the entity bean example application to life at the JavaOne show in June 2001. Rahul not only reviewed both drafts of the book but also developed the PayrollBean to use the J2EE™ Connector specification to access a mainframe application.

We want to thank Ken Saks and Inderjeet Singh for reviewing the new material added in this second edition. In addition, Ken was particularly helpful answering questions related to the latest specifications and making sure that the text and sample code reflect those specifications.

We want to thank Christine Stearns for her ideas and sketches for the second-edition cover art, and the Addison-Wesley artists for its implementation.

We also want to acknowledge the following people who helped us accomplish all the tasks necessary to publish this book: Jeff Jackson, for enthusiastically encouraging us to do this book; Lisa Friendly and Jim Inscore, for assisting us with publication details; and Mike Hendrickson, Ross Venables, Ann Sellers, Jacquelyn Doucette, and Marcy Barnes-Henrie, among others at Addison-Wesley, who had the flexibility to adapt their schedules to ours.