Collective Acknowledgments

There's more than a good author behind a good book, and this one is no exception. To be interesting, a Developer's Notebook needs a compelling technology, and Spring certainly fits that bill. Thanks to Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller, for meticulously breathing life into these ideas. We're in awe of what you've accomplished. Many of you probably bought the book because of another name on the cover, O'Reilly. That's no accident. Thanks to all of the supporting people who make it so. You'll find many of them in the back of this book, but we want to call a little more attention to a few of them.

Thanks to Kyle Hart, for your tireless promotion of this book, and of Better, Faster, Lighter Java. Thanks to Mike Loukides, both for your friendship, and for your guiding touch. You've got the sixth sense that all great editors have, and we genuinely appreciate the little time that we've spent together.

Good books also need good reviewers. Thanks to Mike's mystery reviewer, who provided the harsh, critical commentary that often wakes an author team up, and alerts them to danger. Thanks especially to David Rupp. We added you as an afterthought, and you turned out to be the best reviewer of the bunch. Even so, some mistakes could have escaped their tireless eyes. Those mistakes are ours, and not the reviewers.

We also would like to thank the gracious folks at JetBrains for a great IDE. It helped us write this book much more quickly than we otherwise would have. As always, we thank those Java users groups and events like JavaGruppen in Denmark, for giving us the opportunity to hone this message.