Acknowledgments

Stuart Cheshire

My thanks go to Dan, my able coauthor, without whom this book would not exist. Thanks also to Mike Loukides, our editor, for striking the right balance between patience and impatience, without which this book would never have been finished. Thanks especially to Tim O'Reilly, who saw the promise of Bonjour/Zeroconf (or Rendezvous, as it was then) from the very start and persuaded me to publish an O'Reilly book on the subject.

Thanks to all the people who, through their own initiative, enthusiasm, and efforts, helped make Bonjour a success. Thanks to Kiren Sekar, for his work on the conformance test, the C API, and wide-area Bonjour; to Marc Krochmal, for immeasurable contributions in countless areas; to Craig Keithley, for his tireless evangelism efforts; and to Angie Sticher, Vincent Lubet, and Howard Miller, for their organizational contributions. Thanks to Josh Graessley and Dieter Siegmund, for providing the necessary kernel support, including IPv4 link-local addressing; to Quinn, for the initial Linux support; to Roger Pantos, for the mdnsd daemon for Linux and for the Java APIs; to Bob Bradley and Scott Herscher, for Bonjour for Windows; to Rich Kilmer, for the Ruby APIs; to Thomas Uram, for the SWIG interface definition file; and to Erik Guttman and Bernard Aboba, my coauthors on RFC 3927, the IPv4 link-local addressing specification.

Thanks for their various contributions are also owed to: Mike Bell, Richard Blanchard, Leigh Blankenship, Rob Braun, Joyce Chow, Mike Culbert, Paul Danbold, Moe Gharahgouzloo, David Harrington, Dave Heller, James Higa, Arthur van Hoff, Joe Holt, Jordan Hubbard, Brian James, Deep Jawa, Bryan Johns, Rod Lopez, Jim Lovell, Kevin Marks, Rob Newberry, Juliette Noh, Chris Parker, Eric Peyton, Jeff Robbin, David ("Lefty") Schlesinger, Bud Tribble, Andrew White, James Woodyatt, and Jeremy Wyld.

Thanks to my wife, Pavni, and daughter, Ishani, for their patience while I worked on the book.

Thanks to Lewin, Marta, Ed, and the rest of the staff of the Progresso coffeeshop on Portobello Road, for my twice-daily cappuccinos while I worked on the book.

Thanks also to Simon Patience, Bertrand Serlet, and the rest of my Apple management and colleagues, for giving me this opportunity.

Daniel H. Steinberg

My biggest thanks go to Stuart Cheshire for creating such a nice piece of technology and for coauthoring this book. I remember seeing the demo of Bonjour (then under a different name) at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. It was immediately compelling. Bonjour was one of those ideas that was both obvious and groundbreaking. The underlying ideas were solid and the implementation was impressive. In addition to his contributions as an engineer, he is a careful author who explains precisely what he means to say in an easily understood manner.

Thanks also to Apple employees: Marc Krochmal, for answering all of my questions and for providing code samples that illuminated the corners of the technology; Roger Pantos, for his work with the Java API and his cheerful answers to questions; Bob Bradley, for his help with the examples for the Windows event loop; and David Gleason, for being such a helpful member of the Apple Developer Connection.

As always, many thanks to my wife, Kim. No book project would be possible without her help and support. My daughters, Maggie Rose and Elena, tested the software examples in this book and showed that Bonjour can be intuitive to a six- and an eight-year-old. As we were preparing to write this book, I was hired by O'Reilly Media to launch the java.net web site. Thanks to the great team on the O'Reilly side for making that site, and our onjava.com and dev2dev.com sites, so successful. In particular, thank you Sarah Kim, Tony Stubblebine, David Lents, Jon Mountjoy, Derrick Story, Miky Vacik, and Greg Dickerson. Bruce Stewart is the best boss I've ever had. I wish I'd learned earlier in my career the importance of having such a great manager. I have also worked closely with his boss, Nancy Abila, and appreciate how she also makes it possible for me to do my best work.

Chris Adamson and I have worked together on the O'Reilly Java web sites during the entire writing of this book. He has written two books during that time and has supported me during the writing of this book. Finally, thank you to Mike Loukides, who edited this book with the right amount of pushing and encouragement.