Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to my wife Rita for inspiration and music, and for still being around after all the work that went into the two editions of this book. My special thanks to our daughter Victoria for her insightful ideas throughout the project.

Leon Shklar

Ongoing and everlasting thanks to my wife, Celia, for the joy her singing brings into my life, and for enduring the continued insanity associated with the writing process. Thanks also to my parents and to Celia's parents for their love and support.

Rich Rosen

We would both like to thank the following people for their help:

• our editor, Jonathan Shipley, and his assistants, Georgia King and Claire Jardine, for their professionalism and flexibility throughout the project;

• our technical reviewers, Sue Fitzgerald, Ciarán O'Leary, Ilmi Yoon, Roger Beresford, Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Ray Cheung and Wei Ding, for taking the time to examine the text and provide us with valuable insights and advice;

• our colleagues, Otis Gospodnetich and Keith Kim, for their comments and suggestions for the search chapter, and Heow Eide-Goodman for his comments and suggestions for the chapters on development approaches and Rails application development.