Acknowledgments


Writing a book such as this is never an easy task, and we couldn't have done it without help from many, many people. We'd like to thank everyone at O'Reilly who helped get this book out. We'd like to thank Colleen Gorman and Audrey Doyle, for turning edits around so quickly. We'd especially like to thank our editor, Mike Loukides, for believing in the book and giving us the opportunity to write it.

We are particularly grateful to everyone who read early drafts of the book and gave us feedback: Chris Bono, Rhys Ulerich, Alex McCarrier, and Ivelin Ivanov. While we strove to make the book as good as we could from the start, you guys helped us smooth out the rough edges for everyone else. Thanks!

Finally, we'd like to thank the entire JBoss community for producing the finest Java application server on the market. Thank you for making the best application server out there, and for giving us something to write about.

Norman's Acknowledgments

Vincent... Thank you for not complaining when I needed to spend a little more time working on the book. I know I don't always do a good job balancing work and free time, but I do try.

Sarah... You've been an inspiration to me these last few months, and you have given me the energy I needed to keep at it. Good luck with your own book. I really hope to see it in print someday soon. I know you will be a big success!

Chris... Thanks for the help with the review. You done a great jorb!

Pyoung-Gyu... Thanks, because if I didn't acknowledge you here, I know you'd get mad at me.

Julie... Thanks for still being a friend. Sorry the lottery number didn't work out last time. I guess I'm not psychic after all.

Sunny... It's good to have you back in Texas.

Margot... Thanks for finally giving me closure.

JBoss... Working for JBoss has been a dream come true. Some days I can barely believe I'm getting paid to work on open source software, especially something as big as JBoss. I'd like to thank Marc and Andy for giving me my break here. And, I'd like to thank all the guys in the Austin office (Ivelin, Ryan, Steve, Michael, Clebert, and Charles) for making it an office I don't dread going to.


Note: I'd like to thank O'Reilly for coming up with a great book format that lets me scribble in the margins like this.

Austin... Thanks for being the greatest city in the world to live in. It is truly the Promised Land, a land flowing with burritos and free WiFi. Thanks for being a place that fosters such a vibrant technical community. It has made all the difference.

Sam's Acknowledgments

This is so much like the Academy Awards. Do I only have only one minute? I've written this at least three times and, well, it's always long, so I'm just leaving it this time. Thanks go to...

Norman... I wouldn't have had the chance to work on this if you hadn't asked me to participate and given me a chance to try writing. Now I know that for me, public speaking is much easier! I also appreciate you mentoring me in the writing of this book, and the fact that you cleaned up my work to make it flow. Thanks a lot.

Morgan... You've been an inspiration since before you were born. Since last fall when Norman and I started this you've been patient while I had to write and you played. From time to time, you would ask me what I was doing, and why. The "what" you will be able to see in the physical book itself. The "why" is a bit harder to explain, but it's all of these reasons, and more: because Norman asked me to, because I wanted to see my name in the Library of Congress, because I wanted to go to the bookstore and see my name on a book instead of in one, but mostly because I wanted you to be able to say one day that your dad wrote a book and for you to be proud of me! I love you, Morgan, and I hope when you're old enough to read this you understand what a motivator you are to me in my life. I hope you grow up strong and healthy and that I can be as good a father as you are a son. I love you heaps and heaps!

Mom and Dad... For always believing in me, even when you didn't understand what I was doing or where I was going. I'm glad you invested in my future so long ago with the TI-994A, and then with an original Macintosh. Those investments paid off pretty well! I love you both!

Susan... You have provided and continue to provide inspiration as a friend. Things you've said and done were bigger than the moment or the time. Thank you for those times and moments. Thank you for being a friend. You'll always be with me.

Seeing as this may be the only time I ever get to do this, there are lots of other people that I need to thank as well. These people have contributed to my growth as a mentor, trainer, programmer, friend, and person. I don't have space to say why, but I want to thank them. So, here they are, in no particular order: Grady Clendenning, Joyce Crocker, Tony Gibson, Christine Kungel, Melba Sanchez, Alex Nghiem, Kevin Wittkopf, Perry Anderson, Laura Whitehead, Blaine Buxton, Rose Wang, Leroy Mattingly, Deb Ayers, David Shelor, Ron Smith, Scott Shattuck, Lance Bledsoe, Ray Garton, William Edney, Wayne Hearn, John Head, Tina Gilbert, Ross Gorde, Dick Norton, Geoff Kaiser, Sunny Adams, Allen Keirn, Andy Littman, Mark Morrison, Kelly Edwards, Tee McNamara, Ron Smith, Scott Boyd, Greg Marriot, Jay Zaback, Andrew Donahoe, Larry Turcotte, Bill Dudney, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, the Mauck family, Rebecca Redwood, and finally, the big guy upstairs. Thanks to all of you. I'm sure I've left off someone, and to you I send my thanks as well. I lost my address book a few years ago, so I'm going from memory. Also, if I misspelled your name, I'm sorry 'bout that, my memory is not what it used to be.

Finally, work on this book was fun, but at the same time it was a hard task for me. I tend to want to write like I talk.

That style of writing leads to run-on sentences. Mike, our editor, would remind me from time to time in his feedback about run-ons, and I've slowly gotten better at avoiding them. Although writing is not easy or natural to me yet, working on this book has served as a real motivator for me to try and write more. Some quotes that sum up my feelings about working on this book:


Note: My friends will tell you I'm a very adept talker!

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King

I hope you, the reader, find this book to be an excellent piece of work, as Norman and I have tried to do our work well. We both found ourselves slammed at work, busy during holiday season and seemingly always short on time. But with all that and a lot of motivation from our editor, I think we've created something we can be very proud of.

Last, but not least, remember that the answer is 42!



JBoss. A Developer's Notebook
JBoss: A Developers Notebook
ISBN: 0596100078
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 106

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