Acknowledgments

I’m very grateful for having had the opportunity to write this book. It has helped me sharpen my programming skills in both Groovy and Java. Thanks to my coauthors and editors, especially my development editor, Jackie Carter, I also learned a great deal about writing. Most of all, I enjoyed working with so many brilliant people!

I’m deeply indebted to our reviewing team: Jonas Trindler, Jochen Theodorou, Jeremy Rayner, Christopher DeBracy, Bob McWhirter, Sam Pullara, John Stump, Graeme Rocher, Jeff Cunningham, Bas Vodde, Guillaume Alleon, Doug Warren, Derek Lane, Scott Shaw, Norman Richards, Stuart Caborn, Glen Smith, John Wilson, and Martin C. Martin. The “most observant reviewer” award goes to Marc Guillemot!

Other friends helped with the book in one way or another: Denis Antonioli, Christian Bauer, Gerald Bauer, Tim Bray, Jesse Eichar, Benjamin Feier-mann, James Gosling, Martin Huber, Stephan Huber, Andy Hunt, Vincent Massol, Richard Monson-Haefel, Johannes Link, Rolf Pfenninger, Franck Rasolo, Stefan Roock, Rene Schönfeldt, Tomi Schütz, Scott Stirling, Roman Strobl, Frank Westphal, John Wilson, Dr. Russel Winder, all Groovy folks, as well as participants in Manning’s Early Access Program.

Special thanks to Jochen Theodorou, the technical lead of the Groovy project, and John Wilson, Groovy’s grandmaster of dynamic programming, for always being available when we needed advice about Groovy’s inner workings. In addition, Jochen was the technical proofreader for the book, checking the code one last time, just before the book went to press. Finally, very special thanks to James Gosling for writing the foreword to Groovy in Action.

The book would never had made it to the shelves without the support and guidance of everyone at Manning Publications, especially our publisher Marjan Bace and our editor Jackie Carter. We would also like to thank the rest of the team at Manning: Benjamin Berg, Denis Dalinnik, Gabriel Dobrescu, Dottie Marsico, Mary Piergies, Iain Shigeoka, Hieu Ta, Tiffany Taylor, Karen Tegtmeyer, Katie Tennant, Ron Tomich, Helen Trimes, Lianna Wlasiuk, and Megan Yockey.

My family, and especially my parents, have always supported me when times were tough and—most importantly—encouraged me to pursue my ideas. Thank you so much.