Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge and thank Cognizant immensely for encouraging and supporting this collaborative work with Prakash and Tony, which was initiated two years ago. Special thanks are due to Frank (CEO) and Chandra (president and MD) for their encouragement for this collaborative work. Thanks are due to Raj Bala (VP and CTO) and Dr. Appa Rao (VP, GTO) for their continuous encouragement and support during the course of authoring this book. I am highly indebted to Viswakumar (AVP, Projects) for his incessant help and support of this collaborative work.

Support from my wife Sujatha Kumar, my daughter Nayana Kumar, and my son Govind Kashyap has been tremendous throughout the course of this book, and I sincerely acknowledge their continued support on this project for the past two years.

We owe our sincere appreciation to Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan and Arijit Chatterjee of Adobe (India) for their timely help in shaping the companion website for this book. We also admire Sujit Reddy and Shyam Prasad of Adobe (India) for helping us with the content and design of this site.

—Dr. B. V. Kumar

I would like to thank Chris Atwood and Octavian Tanase at Sun for their support and encouragement throughout this project. Special thanks and love to my family—Jayanthi, my wife and Akshay, Madhuri, and Rohan, my children—for always being there for me and supporting my endeavors with vigor. I was fortunate to work with a great team of coauthors: B. V. Kumar and Tony Ng. Each brought their expert-level skills to make this a rewarding experience. Thanks to Gopalan Suresh Raj, Binod P. G., Keith Babo, and Rick Palkovic for their seminal paper, “Implementing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) with the Java EE 5 SDK,” which inspired me to explore the subject further and get involved in writing this book. This book is all about implementation. The basis for this book is the NetBeans IDE. The team that I worked with—Todd Fast, Chris Webster, Girish Balachandran, Nam Nguyen, Rico Cruz, Jiri Kopsa, Ajit Bhate, PCM Reddy, and Hong Lin (among many others)—have all contributed in helping make the NetBeans product a great success.

On the editorial and production side, thanks to Greg Doench, Michelle Housley, Anne Goebel, and the rest of the editorial staff at Pearson for their guidance.

—Prakash Narayan

I would like to thank Jeet Kaul and Tom Kincaid for their encouragement and support, Bill Shannon and Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart for their guidance, and the entire GlassFish team who worked on the Java EE platform and SDK.

—Tony Ng