Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Second Edition

By William Crawford, Jim Farley, David Flanagan

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal appearing on the cover of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Second Edition, is a sand dollar (Echinarachnius parma). The sand dollar is a flattened, rigid, diskshaped marine invertebrate related to sea urchins and sea stars. It is found in large numbers on the sandy bottoms in the coastal waters of many parts of the world. The sand dollar's shell, or test, is often perforated with petal-shaped slots arranged around a central point. The mouth is located in this central position on the underside of the shell. The shell is covered with spines of varying lengths. These spines aid the sand dollar in locomotion and enable it to burrow just below the surface of the sandy bottom. In this sand, the sand dollar finds the tiny organic material it feeds on, pushing the food towards its mouth with tiny tube feet. Additional tube feet on the upper side of the sand dollar are used for breathing.

The sand dollar's flower-like appearance and its abundance in many parts of the world have made it a favorite of shell collectors. Scientists have also taken an interest in this small invertebrate. The sand dollar is frequently used in the study of mitosis, the process of cell division. It is believed that a better understanding of mitosis may lead to a better understanding of cancer. Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the production editor for Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Second Edition. Mary Brady copyedited the book. Jane Ellin and Sheryl Avruch provided quality control. David Chu, Julie Flanagan, and Phil Dangler provided production assistance. Ellen Troutman-Zaig wrote the index. Lenny Muellner provided XML support.

Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with Quark-XPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book; the code font is Adobe ITC Franklin Gothic.

For Parts I and II, Neil Walls converted the files from SGML to FrameMaker 5.5.6 using tools created by Mike Sierra, as well as tools written in Perl by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, and Neil Walls. The print version of Part III was generated from XML using a basic macro set developed by Steve Talbott from the GNU troff -gs macros and adapted to the book design by Lenny Muellner; Norm Walsh wrote the Perl filter that translates XML source into those macros.

The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The hierarchy diagrams that appear in Part III were produced in encapsulated PostScript format by a Java program written by David Flanagan. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

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