Pro Java™ EE Spring Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies Implementing Java™ EE Patterns with the Spring Framework

Acknowledgments

I would like to take this opportunity to thank a few people whose ideas, inspirations, and diligence have contributed significantly to this book. First and foremost, I thank Steve Anglin for providing me with the opportunity to author this book. We started with a completely different idea way back in September 2007. Later it was Steve who came up with the idea to merge the Spring Framework and Java EE design patterns.

I am indebted to Prosenjit Bhattacharyya and Tom Welsh for the hours they spent on the technical review. Prosenjit is my old buddy since college days, and his objective feedback (especially for Chapter 7) helped give complete shape to each chapter in this book. I have learned a lot from Tom about writing in general. ...