Seriously Good Software

Acknowledgments

I expected to work hard on this book. I didn’t expect that so many other people would work on it equally hard. I’m talking about the people at Manning, who in various capacities pushed the quality of this book close to my personal limit. A number of external reviewers took time to write detailed reports that helped refine the content. I hope they’re happy with the result.

I’ve learned Java from Cay’s books, and I’ve been recommending them to my students for many years. I’m honored that he kindly agreed to write the foreword for this book.

To all the reviewers: Aditya Kaushik, Alexandros Koufoudakis, Bonnie Bailey, Christian Kreutzer-Beck, Clive Harber, Elio Salvatore, Flavio Diez, Foster Haines, Gregory Reshetniak, Hessam Shafiei ...