Acknowledgments


Our reviewers were essential to the writing process. Special thanks to Dion Almaer, Felipe Leme, Henri Yandell, Carlos Sanchez, Arnaud Heritier, Guillaume Laforge, Brett Porter, Trygve Laugstol, Bob McWirther, David Blevins, Anton Mazkovoi, Emmanuel Venisse, and Jason van Zyl.

Thanks to our editor, Mike Loukides, for your wise guidance and advice. Thanks to our copy editor, Audrey Doyle, for putting up with our schedule and problems with the English language. Thanks to Colleen Gorman, and everyone involved in the production effort. Thanks also to Clay Andres of Studio B.

Credit must be given to Atlassian and Mike Cannon-Brookes for the collaborative software used to develop content for this book. This book was created using both Confluence and JIRA as essential communication tools. Confluence is a wiki and JIRA is an issue tracker; if you haven't used either, check out the Atlassian site at http://www.atlassian.com, and, after reading this book, you should take a look at the Maven JIRA plug-in. Thanks to the XWiki project, which is hosting the mavenbook.org wiki. If you're in need of a next-generation wiki, make sure to check XWiki at http://www.xwiki.com.

Thanks to the Subversion team (http://subversion.tigris.org) for developing the solid version control system in which this book was developed. Thanks to the Codehaus community (http://www.codehaus.org). And, thanks to the dedicated volunteers at the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org) for providing a structure that encourages the development of great software.

Acknowledgments from Vincent

If you're enjoying this book, you can thank Tim. He's made it enjoyable to read, transforming my technical prose into proper English. He also deserves credit for writing the first two chapters which are always treacherous to write, as they contain introductory material and it's hard to follow a linear progression and not jump ahead. In addition, Tim is also hosting the book's Subversion repository that we are using to serve the code to you. Thanks Tim!

I'd like to thank all the Maven developers who kindly agreed to take some of their Maven coding time to review the book. You can't imagine how priceless this is!

This book is the fruit of a long chain of events that can be traced back to the end of 1981, the year in which my parents had the insight to bring home one of the first IBM PCs. Since that time I've not stopped loving computers and programming them. I thank my parents for this, but even more for the caring and loving environment they provided during all those years.

Last, but not least, thanks to my wife, Marie-Albane, and my kids, Pierre-Olivier and Jean, who have allowed me, once again, to take some of their time and devote it to this book. A final acknowledgment goes to for my third and yet-to-be kid, still in the womb of his mother, who may even like Maven someday. Who knows?

Acknowledgments from Tim

Vincent Massol must get primary credit for leading this effort with excitement and energy. Truth be told, this is mostly Vincent's book, and he is the driving force behind much of the content. My main contributions were Chapters 1 and 2, and helping to review and format Vincent's chapters. Vincent has managed to pack Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6 with challenging and engaging content I had thought impossible to introduce in such a format. Without Vincent, this book would have never happened, and he should get extra credit for putting up with my frequent disappearances. Vincent's contributions to open source development, unit testing, and agile development benefit the industry as a whole.

I'd like to thank the Institute for the International Education of Students, First Look, Lakunas, Saforian, and Grassroots Technologies. Thanks especially to Mike O'Brien, Rock Podrazik, Peter Costa, Kyle McCluskey, David McGarry, Andy Carlson, Paul Brown, Tim Beynart, Todd Rice, Stefan Winz, Pat Ryan, David Navin, Mark Snell, and Sam Luridas. Thanks to Dr. Bryan Pfaffenberger and Dr. Stephen H. Jones. Also, thanks to the Chicago Java User Group (CJUG) for putting up with my Maven presentation, and thanks to Anil Saldhana, Bill Burke, and Kabir Khan of JBoss for helpful feedback.

Thanks to my supportive family in Chicago and on the East Coast. Last, but not least, thanks to my perfect wife, Susan O'Brien, and our yet-to-be-born child, who also may like Maven someday. Again, who knows?



Maven. A Developer's Notebook
Maven: A Developers Notebook (Developers Notebooks)
ISBN: 0596007507
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 125

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