J2EE Design Patterns

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank everyone who took the time to read all or parts of the innumerable drafts of this book. In particular, we’d like to single out Ted Chen, William Connor, Liz Evans, Jim Farley, Eric Friedman, Phil Haigh, Dave Henry, Ron Hitchens, James “JC” Norman, Paul Tecca and last, but certainly not least, Dave Wood, who went through each chapter with a fine-tooth comb. We’d also like to thank all the writers, theorists, and programmers who have contributed to our understanding of both design patterns and enterprise architecture as a whole. All remaining misrepresentations, errors, and bad karma are, of course, our own.

At O’Reilly, Colleen Gorman did a fabulous job bringing it all together at the end of the development process. And of course, our editor, Mike Loukides, supported the project from its inception and gave us the freedom to put together the best book we could.

William Crawford

First off, I’d like to thank Jon Kaplan for working on this project with me, and Tracy Leeds Kaplan for letting him do it, even with the wedding falling right in the middle of the writing schedule. The result was a far better book that would have materialized otherwise.

I worked for two people during the course of this book, both of whom helped make it possible. Martin Streeter at Invantage and Howard Foster at Perceptive Informatics, Inc. both made sure that I had the time and support to bring the project to a successful conclusion. The extremely competent Perceptive ...