Acknowledgments

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Writing a book is always a monumental effort, and rewriting doesn't seem to be much easier, especially with continuous change in Java technology. Making a book a reality takes many dedicated people, and it is my great pleasure to acknowledge the contributions of the entire Core Java team.

A large number of individuals at Prentice Hall PTR and Sun Microsystems Press provided valuable assistance, but they managed to stay behind the scenes. I'd like them all to know how much I appreciate their efforts. As always, my warm thanks go to my editor, Greg Doench of Prentice Hall PTR, for steering the book through the writing and production process, and for allowing me to be blissfully unaware of the existence of all those folks behind the scenes. I am grateful to Vanessa Moore for the excellent production support. My thanks also to my coauthor of earlier editions, Gary Cornell, who has since moved on to other ventures.

Thanks to the many readers of earlier editions who reported embarrassing errors and made lots of thoughtful suggestions for improvement. I am particularly grateful to the excellent reviewing team that went over the manuscript with an amazing eye for detail and saved me from many more embarrassing errors.

Reviewers of this and earlier editions include Chuck Allison (Contributing Editor, C/C++ Users Journal), Alec Beaton (PointBase, Inc.), Joshua Bloch (Sun Microsystems), David Brown, Dr. Nicholas J. De Lillo (Manhattan College), Rakesh Dhoopar (Oracle), David Geary (Sabreware), Angela Gordon (Sun Microsystems), Dan Gordon (Sun Microsystems), Rob Gordon, Cameron Gregory (olabs.com), Marty Hall (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab), Vincent Hardy (Sun Microsystems), Vladimir Ivanovic (PointBase), Jerry Jackson (ChannelPoint Software), Tim Kimmet (Preview Systems), Chris Laffra, Charlie Lai (Sun Microsystems), Doug Langston, Doug Lea (SUNY Oswego), Gregory Longshore, Bob Lynch (Lynch Associates), Mark Morrissey (The Oregon Graduate Institute), Mahesh Neelakanta (Florida Atlantic University), Paul Philion, Blake Ragsdell, Stuart Reges (University of Arizona), Peter Sander (ESSI University, Nice, France), Paul Sevinc (Teamup AG), Devang Shah (Sun Microsystems),

Bradley A. Smith, Christopher Taylor, Luke Taylor (Valtech), George Thiruvathukal, Kim Topley (author of Core JFC), Janet Traub, Peter van der Linden (Sun Microsystems), Burt Walsh, Corky Cartwright, Frank Cohen (PushToTest), Chris Crane (devXsolution), Bill Higgins (IBM), Hang Lau (McGill University), Angelika Langer, Mark Lawrence, Dr. Paul Sanghera (San Jose State University and Brooks College), and Steve Stelting (Sun Microsystems).

Cay Horstmann
San Francisco, 2004

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