JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition

Acknowledgments for First Edition

I love to write and have always wanted to write a book. After getting a number of articles about Java servlets and a couple of chapters for a server-side Java book published, my confidence was so high that I sent mail to O’Reilly & Associates and asked if they wanted me to write a book about JSP. Much to my surprise (I guess my confidence was not so high after all), they said “Yes!” I knew that it would be more work than I could imagine, and it turned out to be even more than that. But here I am, almost a year later, with 17 chapters and 5 appendixes in a nice stack on my desk, written and rewritten countless times. All that remains is to give thanks to everyone who helped me fulfill this dream.

First, I’d like to thank my editors, Paula Ferguson and Bob Eckstein. Paula was the one who accepted my book proposal in the first place and then helped me through my first stumbling steps of writing the first half of the book. Bob came aboard for the second half and I’m really grateful to him for thoroughly reading everything and giving me helpful advice.

Thanks also to Rob Romano for doing the illustrations, to Christien Shangraw for helping out with the coordination, and to all the production people behind the scenes at O’Reilly who made sure the book got published.

Big thanks also go to the JSP and servlet specification leads, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart and Danny Coward, for providing feedback, answering all my questions, and clarifying the vague and ambiguous ...