Acknowledgments

Although there are only two names on the cover, writing and producing this book has been a tremendous undertaking by a large cast. We couldn’t have written this book without them.

We would like to begin our thanks with Michael Stephens from Manning for getting this project started. We want to thank him for his honesty about how much work this book would really be, and for his guidance and encouragement along the way to get us through it. We couldn’t have done this book without you.

We wish to thank Manning’s publisher, Marjan Bace, for green-lighting the project and heading up a great team at Manning. Our thanks also go out to the entire Manning team for helping us turn our rough ideas into a finished work that goes far beyond what we could have accomplished on our own. This includes the fantastic work done by Olivia DiFeterici, Gabriel Dobrescu, Christina Downs, Leslie Haimes, Cynthia Kane, Dottie Marsico, Mary Piergies, Gordan Salinovic, Maureen Spencer, Tiffany Taylor, Karen Tegtmeyer, Ron Tomich, and Megan Yockey. Thanks to all of you for being part of the team.

We also want to thank Phil Hanna, our technical editor. Phil is an accomplished author with several books under his belt, so we were elated when he joined the team.

We need to thank each and every reviewer for their comments. All of them spent their free time to help us with our project, and for that we are grateful. Special thanks to Julian Seidenberg, Mike Buksas, Denis Kurilenko, Bernard Farrell, Deepak Vohra, Carlo Bottiglieri, Scott Stirling, Goldy Luka, Jeff Cunningham, Eric Raymond, Andrew Grothe, Noel Rappin, Christopher Haupt, Benjamin Gor-lick, Aleksey Nudelman, and Ernest Friedman-Hill.

Last, and perhaps the most important contributor to this book, is everyone from the GWT community. This book was in no small part guided by your questions and discussions on the GWT developers’ forum. This includes not only GWT users, but also the entire GWT team at Google. Thank you all.