PREFACE

We acknowledge and thank the many people who have contributed to this

book through their excellent feedback, assistance and encouragement:

Particularly thorough, careful, and thoughtful reviews of drafts were provided

by Tom Cargill, Peter Deutsch, Paul Hilfinger, Masayuki Ida, David Moon, Steven

Muchnick, Charles L. Perkins, Chris Van Wyk, Steve Vinoski, Philip Wadler,

Daniel Weinreb, and Kenneth Zadeck. We are very grateful for their extraordinary

volunteer efforts.

We are also grateful for reviews, questions, comments, and suggestions from

Stephen Adams, Bowen Alpern, Glenn Ammons, Leonid Arbuzov, Kim Bruce,

Edwin Chan, David Chase, Pavel Curtis, Drew Dean, William Dietz, David Dill,

Patrick Dussud, Ed Felten, John Giannandrea, John Gilmore, Charles Gust,

Warren Harris, Lee Hasiuk, Mike Hendrickson, Mark Hill, Urs Hoelzle, Roger

Hoover, Susan Flynn Hummel, Christopher Jang, Mick Jordan, Mukesh Kacker,

Peter Kessler, James Larus, Derek Lieber, Bill McKeeman, Steve Naroff,

Evi Nemeth, Robert O'Callahan, Dave Papay, Craig Partridge, Scott Pfeffer,

Eric Raymond, Jim Roskind, Jim Russell, William Scherlis, Edith Schonberg,

Anthony Scian, Matthew Self, Janice Shepherd, Kathy Stark, Barbara Steele, Rob

Strom, William Waite, Greg Weeks, and Bob Wilson. (This list was generated

semi automatically from our E mail records. We apologize if we have omitted

anyone.)

The feedback from all these reviewers was invaluable to us in improving the

definition of the Java language as well as the form of the presentation in this book.

We thank them for their diligence. Any remaining errors in this book we hope

they are few are our responsibility and not theirs.

We thank Francesca Freedman and Doug Kramer for assistance with matters

of typography and layout. We thank Dan Mills of Adobe Systems Incorporated for

assistance in exploring possible choices of typefaces.

Many of our colleagues at Sun Microsystems have helped us in one way or

another. Lisa Friendly, our series editor, managed our relationship with Addison 

Wesley. Susan Stambaugh managed the distribution of many hundreds of copies

of drafts to reviewers. We received valuable assistance and technical advice from

Ben Adida, Ole Agesen, Ken Arnold, Rick Cattell, Asmus Freytag, Norm Hardy,

Steve Heller, David Hough, Doug Kramer, Nancy Lee, Marianne Mueller, Akira

Tanaka, Greg Tarsy, David Ungar, Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath, Geoff Wyant, and

Derek White. We thank Alan Baratz, David Bowen, Mike Clary, John Doerr, Jon

Kannegaard, Eric Schmidt, Bob Sproull, Bert Sutherland, and Scott McNealy for

leadership and encouragement.

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