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Champion reviewing honors go to Christopher Allen, Tomer Amiaz, Alain Decamps, Don Hinton, Susan Liebeskind, Dennis Mancl, Patrick Rabau, Eamonn Saunders, and Johnny Willemsen, who reviewed the entire book and provided extensive comments that improved its form and content substantially. Naturally, we are responsible for any remaining problems.

Many other ACE users from around the world provided feedback on drafts of this book, including Mark Appel, Shahzad Aslam-Mir, Kevin Bailey, Barry Benowitz, Emmanuel Croze, Yasir Faiz, Gillmer Derge, Iain Hanson, Brad Hoskins, Bob Huston, Christopher Kohlhoff, Serge Kolgan, Andy Marchewka, Jeff McNiel, Phil Mesnier, Arturo Montes, Aaron Nielsen, Jeff Parsons, Pim Philipse, Yaron Pinto, Stephane Pion, Nick Pratt, Paul Rubel, Shourya Sarcar, Leo Stutzmann, Tommy Svensson, Alain Totouom, Roger Tragin, and Reuven Yagel.

We are indebted to all the members, past and present, of the DOC groups at Washington University, St. Louis and the University of California, Irvine, and the team members at Object Computing Inc. and Riverace Corporation, who developed, refined, and optimized many of the ACE capabilities presented in this book. This group includes Everett Anderson, Alex Arulanthu, Shawn Atkins, John Aughey, Darrell Brunsch, Luther Baker, Don Busch, Chris Cleeland, Angelo Corsaro, Chad Elliot, Sergio Flores-Gaitan, Chris Gill, Pradeep Gore, Andy Gokhale, Priyanka Gontla, Myrna Harbibson, Tim Harrison, Shawn Hannan, John Heitmann, Joe Hoffert, James Hu, Frank Hunleth, Prashant Jain, Vishal Kachroo, Ray Klefstad, Kitty Krishnakumar, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Michael Kircher, Fred Kuhns, David Levine, Chanaka Liyanaarachchi, Michael Moran, Ebrahim Moshiri, Sumedh Mungee, Bala Natarajan, Ossama Othman, Jeff Parsons, Kirthika Parameswaran, Krish Pathayapura, Irfan Pyarali, Sumita Rao, Carlos O'Ryan, Rich Siebel, Malcolm Spence, Marina Spivak, Naga Surendran, Steve Totten, Bruce Trask, Nanbor Wang, and Seth Widoff.

We also want to thank the thousands of C++ developers from over fifty countries who've contributed to ACE during the past decade . ACE's excellence and success is a testament to the skills and generosity of many talented developers and the forward-looking companies that have had the vision to contribute their work to ACE's open-source code base. Without their support, constant feedback, and encouragement, we never would have written this book. In recognition of the efforts of the ACE open -source community, we maintain a list of all contributors, which is available at http://ace.ece.uci.edu/ACE-members.html.

We are also grateful for the support from colleagues and sponsors of our research on patterns and development of the ACE toolkit, notably the contributions of Ron Akers (Motorola), Steve Bachinsky (SAIC), John Bay (DARPA), Detlef Becker (Siemens), Dave Busigo (DARPA), John Buttitto (Sun), Becky Callison (Boeing), Wei Chiang (Nokia), Joe Cross (Lockheed Martin), Lou DiPalma (Raytheon), Bryan Doerr (Boeing), Karlheinz Dorn (Siemens), Matt Emerson (Escient Convergence Group, Inc.), Sylvester Fernandez (Lockheed Martin), Nikki Ford (DARPA), Andreas Geisler (Siemens), Helen Gill (NSF), Bob Groschadl (Pivotech Systems, Inc.), Jody Hagins (ATD), Andy Harvey (Cisco), Sue Kelly (Sandia National Labs), Gary Koob (DARPA), Petri Koskelainen (Nokia Inc), Sean Landis (Motorola), Patrick Lardieri (Lockheed Martin), Doug Lea (SUNY Oswego), Hikyu Lee (SoftLinx), Joe Loyall (BBN), Mike Masters (NSWC), Ed Mays (U.S. Marine Corps), John Mellby (Raytheon), Jeanette Milos (DARPA), Stan Moyer (Telcordia), Russ Noseworthy (Object Sciences), Dieter Quehl (Siemens), Vijay Raghavan (Vanderbilt U.), Lucie Robillard (U.S. Air Force), Craig Rodrigues (BBN), Rick Schantz (BBN), Steve Shaffer (Kodak), Tom Shields (Raytheon), Dave Sharp (Boeing), Naval Sodha (Ericsson), Paul Stephenson (Ericsson), Tatsuya Suda (UCI), Umar Syyid (Hughes), Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt U.), Gautam Thaker (Lockheed Martin), Lothar Werzinger (Krones), and Don Winter (Boeing).

Very special thanks go to Susan Cooper, our copy editor, for enhancing our written material. In addition, we are grateful for the encouragement and patience of our editor, Debbie Lafferty, our production coordinator , Elizabeth Ryan, the series editor and inventor of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, and everyone else at Addison-Wesley who made it possible to publish this book.

Finally, we would also like to express our gratitude and indebtedness to the late W. Richard Stevens, the father of network programming literature. His books brought a previously unknown level of clarity to the art and science of network programming. We endeavor to stand on his virtual shoulders, and extend the understanding that Richard's books brought into the world of object-oriented design and C++ programming.

Steve's Acknowledgments

I would like to thank God, who gave me an enjoyment of computers and networking. I hope He's pleased. To Jane, my wife of 20 years , thank you for loving me and cheering me on every day. I would not have completed this work without your support ”you are a blessing. Thank you to the late David N. Drummond, who took a chance on a kid without a degree. And thank you to Doug Schmidt, a scholar and a gentleman, whose insight, enthusiasm , and creativity impress and challenge me daily.

Doug's Acknowledgments

I've been writing this book for over a decade, so it's an enormous thrill (and relief) to see it in print at last! For this, I'm grateful to Steve Huston, Debbie Lafferty, and Bjarne Stroustrup for their immense help and patience in seeing this project through to fruition. I'd also like to thank my wife Sonja for her love and support during the writing of this book ”now that it's finished we'll have more time for ballroom dancing ! Finally, thanks to my many friends and colleagues at the College of William and Mary; Washington University, St. Louis; University of California, Irvine; DARPA; and Siemens ”as well as the thousands of ACE and TAO developers and users worldwide ”who have greatly enriched my intellectual and interpersonal life over the past two decades.

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