Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Third Edition

Acknowledgments

This book began six years ago as an extension of the series begun by Java in a Nutshell. The readers of the past two editions have provided us with plenty of constructive comments, criticism, suggestions, and validation over that time, and at the end of the day, they are the inspiration for this new edition. The authors would also like to extend their gratitude to the book’s technical reviewers, whose constructive criticism has done much to improve this work: Ed Zarecor, Doug Heath, Pat Niemeyer, Max Cooper, Steve Ditlinger, Bruce Tate, and Roshni Malani.

Jim Farley

First and foremost, I have to thank my coauthors, because this book simply wouldn’t exist without them. Many thanks to Will Crawford for revising and extending the bulk of the chapters on web components (servlets, JSP, and JSF), for the updated chapter on JDBC, and the reworked chapter on XML. Thanks to Prakash Malani for his contributions to the chapters on security and transactions, and for his gracious attitude and generous efforts in reviewing others’ material; to Justin Gehtland for the much-needed chapter on Hibernate; and to John Norman for the new chapter on Struts, which rounds out the web components material. It’s been a pleasure working with you all on this.

But a writing project of any kind requires a much larger cast of characters than those listed on the cover. Deb Cameron had the unenviable job of editing this edition, which turned out to be a much bigger job than she signed up for, due to ...