Acknowledgments

A lot of time and effort from a lot of people goes in to creating a book such as this. I would like to acknowledge the efforts of some of those who worked very hard to make this book a reality. I would like to thank my editors at Prentice Hall, Karen McLean, John Neidhart, and Wil Mara, for helping me refine my idea for a book on technical programming with Java and for making sure everything went as smoothly as possible. I would also like to thank my technical reviewers Jim Huddleston, Anne Horton, Basil Hassan, Joe Olejniczak, James Brown, and Periklis Papadopoulos. Their insights, corrections, and suggestions helped to tighten up and strengthen the book. I learned a lot from them in the process. Finally, as always, I would like to thank my beautiful wife, Lisa, for the patience she shows when I'm writing my books.