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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the many people who have provided both tremendous support

and direct help to make this a better book. Much of what is good about this book is due to

their diligence and care, and any mistakes or weaknesses are entirely ours.

We would like to thank our editors at O’Reilly Media, Inc.: Mike Hendrickson for getting

us off to a great start; Andrew Odewahn for seeing this through; and Susan Brown Zahn,

Marlowe Shaeffer, and Mary O’Brien for bringing it all together. Many people went out of

their way to help by reading early drafts and providing detailed advice and reviews. We

would like to thank Chuk Biebighauser, Jeff Coffin, Bryan Helm, Ravi Kalidindi, Brendan

McCarthy, Ben Menasha, and Tim Seltzer. We were also lucky enough to have some very

challenging technical reviewers critique our penultimate draft, and this is a much better

book because of their help. Many thanks to Kevin Ellison from Sun Microsystems, Inc.;

Graham Gillen from VeriSign, Inc.; John Hill, Jim Both, and Dennis Dearth from ESync;

Mark Johnson of RFID Tribe; Steve Lazar of Texas Instruments; Mark Palmer from

Progress Software; Ken Traub from ConnecTerra; Bryan Tracey from GlobeRanger, Inc.;

and Marc Linster of Avicon. A special thanks goes to Paul Bodifee of the ...