Acknowledgments

We would like to thank our technical reviewers, who provided very valuable input. They include S. Rajesh Babu (ObjectFrontier), Michael Bouschen (Tech@Spree), Ron Hitchens (Ronsoft Technologies), Dennis Leinbaugh, Patrick Linskey (SolarMetric), Marc Prud'hommeaux (SolarMetric), Eric Samson (LIBeLIS), David Tinker (Hemisphere Technologies), Mike Warren (Chemical Abstract Service), and Abe White (SolarMetric). We also appreciate the valuable feedback from Linda DeMichiel, Sun Microsystem's EJB specification lead. The feedback and suggestions from these technical reviewers was invaluable.

We especially acknowledge the support and guidance of our editor, Michael Loukides. We would also like to thank some of the other staff at O'Reilly, including David Futato, Robert Romano, Brian Sawyer, and Mike Sierra.