Learning Java, 4th Edition

Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed to putting this book together, both in its Exploring Java incarnation and in its current form as Learning Java. Foremost, we would like to thank Tim O’Reilly for giving us the opportunity to write this book. Thanks to Mike Loukides, the series editor, whose patience and experience helped us get started on this journey. Thanks to Paula Ferguson and John Posner, who contributed their organizational and editing abilities at various times. And a special thanks to Deb Cameron, the tireless editor of this book, without whom the previous two editions might never have been finished and certainly wouldn’t have resembled English. We could not have asked for a more skillful or responsive team of people with whom to work.

Speaking of borrowings, the original version of the glossary came from David Flanagan’s book Java in a Nutshell (O’Reilly). We also borrowed several class hierarchy diagrams from David’s book. These diagrams were based on similar diagrams by Charles L. Perkins.

Thanks also to Marc Wallace and Steven Burkett for reading the original work in progress and for the support of our friends at Washington University: Bryan O’Connor and Brian Gottlieb. Thanks also to Josh Peck, coauthor of the original book, Exploring Java. Thanks to all those who reviewed or answered questions: David Flanagan for generics; Henry Wong for the concurrency utilities; Jim Elliott, Marc Loy, and Brian Cole for Swing; Jack Shirazi for NIO; Tim Boudreau for NetBeans; ...