Acknowledgments
Quite a few people helped give birth to this book. To our editor, Deborah Russell, we express our heartfelt thanks for believing in this project and for applying her usual deft editing skills to the chapters we wrote.
Several people were instrumental to the success of this book because they took the time to answer questions, talk about how they were using Net8, and even supply some material. We owe Isobel Eckhardt a great debt for answering numerous questions about Oracle Names, reviewing an early draft of the chapter on Names, and supplying us with material explaining how regions and domains worked. John-Paul Navarro was instrumental in educating us about LDAP and also provided a great deal of aid when it came to figuring out just how to make Net8 and LDAP work together. Bill Pribyl, coauthor of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, was kind enough to review the section in Chapter 4 that talks about configuring Net8 to support remote procedure calls.
We also have many excellent technical reviewers to thank. They took the time to read draft copies of this book, look for errors, and comment on areas where our coverage was thin or missing. Thanks to Edward (Lee) Murray, Stephen Andert, Michael Culp, Chris Gait, and Richard Eastham. These people have greatly contributed to the accuracy and relevance of the book that you are now reading. In addition, Howard Cohen and Harvey Eneman of Oracle Corporation were gracious enough to answer some questions regarding Connection Manager. Many ...