Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the many people who helped to create this book:

• To our editor, Robert Elliott, thank you for your patience and support.

• To our project editor, Christopher Rivera, thank you for juggling the crazy timelines and last-minute edits and helping us craft a strong, readable book.

• To the many people who helped review the technical content and provided assistance along the way, our heartfelt thanks. Special thanks to Duncan Mills, David Ezzio, Mike Lehmann, Robyn Chan, Steve Harris, and Ted Farrell for their strong support and encouragement. Thanks to our technical reviewers: Prasanth Pallamreddy, Steven Liu, Matt Shinn, Ryan Eberhard, Will Hopkins, Tom Barnes, Naresh Revanuru, Ballav Bihani, and Derek Sharpe. Thanks also to Sal Gambino, Dongbo Xiao, Craig Perez, Dave Felts, Jeff Tancill, Raja Mukherjee, Michael Chen, Dave Cabelus, Greg Stachnick, Doug Clark, Gordon Yorke, Peter Bower, Loren Konkus, Shaun Pei, Josh Dorr, Raj Inamdar, Alex Somogyi, Sandeep Shrivastava, and the many other Oracle engineers for their assistance in helping us understand the finer points of WebLogic Server and troubleshooting out examples. This book owes its success to these fine people.

I would like to thank my wife, Chintana, for her patience these last few months. Special thanks to Greg and Phil for making this book possible and putting up with my constant changes and delays. Thanks also to Josh and Paul who really made the Security and Web Services chapters what they are. Without the four of you, this book would have never happened.

—Robert Patrick

I would like to thank my wife, Meredith, for her patience these last few months. Not as long as the first time around, but quite an ordeal nonetheless. Special thanks also to Robert for agreeing to be lead author and for never compromising on the quality, accuracy, or completeness. You are very good at what you do! Finally, I am forever grateful for the blessings in my life and I know from whom they come. All things are possible.

—Greg Nyberg

I would like to thank Robert and Greg for inviting me to join this project, and for allowing me to win one or two of the battles.

—Philip Aston