Beginning Hibernate, Third Edition

Acknowledgments

Joseph would like to thank various people for encouraging and enabling him to write this book, and so he will: first, his wife and children for allowing him the time and energy to put into the project; Steve Ebersole, project lead for Hibernate; the Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat; friends like Tracy Snell, Andrew Lombardi, Eugene Ciurana, and Justin Lee for serving as sounding boards and source material; his editors, for putting up with his quirks¹ ; bands like Rush, Pink Floyd, and Tool for providing the soundtrack to the book² ; the letter Z, for allowing itself to go underused throughout the book; his Gibson guitar; Robert Sedgewick, just because Joseph has not had the chance to thank him in print yet; Toby Segaran, ...