Acknowledgments

First, I would like to thank members of the Swing team that have patiently endured my multitude—and I do mean multitude—of questions and bug reports. The following Swing team members, in no particular order, have been especially helpful: Rick Levenson, Amy Fowler, Hans Muller, Philip Milne, Georges Saab, Jeff Dinkins, Jeff Shapiro, Scott Violet, Tom Ball, Tom Santos, Willie Walker, Timothy Prinzing, Steve Wilson and Nancy Schorr. Additionally, Monica Gaines and Sue Palmer from JavaSoft have provided insightful review comments. Also, I am grateful to James Gosling, who was gracious enough to write the forward. Everyone listed above has significantly contributed to the overall quality of this book.

Rachel Borden of Sun Microsystems Press, along with Greg Doench, Patti Guerrieri, Lisa Iarkowski and Mary Treacy from Prentice Hall, have all bent over backwards to get this volume on the shelves. Mary Lou Nohr, my editor, is worthy of the highest praise because gives me fish and at the same time, teaches me to fish for myself.

I am also indebted to Keith Ohlfs of Pixelsite for granting permission to use his cool images. Rational, Inc. was also kind enough to provide me with a copy of Rational Rose that was used to create the class and sequence diagrams in the book.

Finally, I would like to thank Lesa and Ashley Anna Geary. Without their patience and understanding, I would never have been able to get this behemoth out the door. A final tip of the hat to Mariko and Blazey who have been my constant companions while writing this book.