Chris Steel

I wish to thank all of the many people who contributed to my effort. First, I would like to thank the individuals that directly contributed content to my work.

• Frank Hurley, who single-handedly wrote Chapter 2 and who contributed a lot of material and references to the discussion of security fundamentals. Without Frank, I would have missed a lot of the security basics.

• Aprameya Paduthonse, who contributed several patterns across the Web and Business tiers. He also reviewed several chapters and was able to add content and fill in a lot of gaps quickly. Without Aprameya, I would have been even further behind schedule.

• Jason Miller, who contributed vast amounts of knowledge about the Web tier and who was responsible for the technical details about how the Web-tier patterns fit together. His understanding of Struts and Web tier frameworks is unsurpassed.

I also wish to express my deepest gratitude to our many reviewers. Their time and dedication to reviewing the book is what has kept this book on track.

In particular, my thanks go to Robert Skoczylas, whose thorough reviews and many suggestions to the chapters about Web tier and Business tier patterns have made my work much more cohesive and understandable. I have not had a better reviewer than Robert.