Oracle in a Nutshell

Acknowledgments

As you might expect, a tremendous number of people have helped us put this book together. We are very grateful to them all.

First, a huge thank-you to those whose original books provided source material on which we built the chapters in this book: Jonathan Gennick, Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl, Chip Dawes, Brian Laskey, Don Bales, Darl Kuhn, and Scott Schulze. In particular, we would like to send a special thanks to Steven Feuerstein, our friend and hero; Chip Dawes, who provided a wealth of accurate and timely information; and Don Bales, whose patience and gentle insistence helped to produce the sections of this book on Java.

We are also very grateful to the reviewers of this book: Jonathan Gennick, Sanjay Mishra, Darl Kuhn, and Alan Beaulieu. All of them were not only thorough but also willing to work under unreasonable deadlines. We take back all of the curses muttered under our breath during the last days of preparation as we tried to correct all the errors they found and make all the changes they suggested.

In addition, a special thanks to Debby Russell, our editor, who, as usual, acted as a cross between a guide and a relentless enforcer, but without whom this book would never have been published. And thanks as well to the entire O’Reilly production team for turning this mass of pages, syntax diagrams, and tables into a cohesive and beautifully formatted whole.

We do acknowledge, however, that despite all of this help, any and all errors or missteps are exclusively ...