Acknowledgments

Writing a book is always a monumental effort, and rewriting it doesn’t seem to be much easier, especially with the continuous change in Java technology. Making a book a reality takes many dedicated people, and it is my great pleasure to acknowledge the contributions of the entire Core Java team.

A large number of individuals at Prentice Hall provided valuable assistance but managed to stay behind the scenes. I’d like them all to know how much I appreciate their efforts. As always, my warm thanks go to my editor, Greg Doench, for steering the book through the writing and production process, and for allowing me to be blissfully unaware of the existence of all those folks behind the scenes. I am very grateful to Julie Nahil for production support, and to Dmitry Kirsanov and Alina Kirsanova for copyediting and typesetting the manuscript. My thanks also to my coauthor of earlier editions, Gary Cornell, who has since moved on to other ventures.

Thanks to the many readers of earlier editions who reported embarrassing errors and made lots of thoughtful suggestions for improvement. I am particularly grateful to the excellent reviewing team who went over the manuscript with an amazing eye for detail and saved me from many embarrassing errors.

Reviewers of this and earlier editions include Chuck Allison (Utah Valley University), Lance Andersen (Oracle), Paul Anderson (Anderson Software Group), Alec Beaton (IBM), Cliff Berg, Andrew Binstock (Oracle), Joshua Bloch, David Brown, Corky Cartwright, Frank Cohen (PushToTest), Chris Crane (devXsolution), Dr. Nicholas J. De Lillo (Manhattan College), Rakesh Dhoopar (Oracle), David Geary (Clarity Training), Jim Gish (Oracle), Brian Goetz (Oracle), Angela Gordon, Dan Gordon (Electric Cloud), Rob Gordon, John Gray (University of Hartford), Cameron Gregory (olabs.com), Marty Hall (coreservlets.com, Inc.), Vincent Hardy (Adobe Systems), Dan Harkey (San Jose State University), William Higgins (IBM), Vladimir Ivanovic (PointBase), Jerry Jackson (CA Technologies), Tim Kimmet (Walmart), Chris Laffra, Charlie Lai (Apple), Angelika Langer, Doug Langston, Hang Lau (McGill University), Mark Lawrence, Doug Lea (SUNY Oswego), Gregory Longshore, Bob Lynch (Lynch Associates), Philip Milne (consultant), Mark Morrissey (The Oregon Graduate Institute), Mahesh Neelakanta (Florida Atlantic University), Hao Pham, Paul Philion, Blake Ragsdell, Stuart Reges (University of Arizona), Rich Rosen (Interactive Data Corporation), Peter Sanders (ESSI University, Nice, France), Dr. Paul Sanghera (San Jose State University and Brooks College), Paul Sevinc (Teamup AG), Devang Shah (Sun Microsystems), Yoshiki Shibata, Bradley A. Smith, Steven Stelting (Oracle), Christopher Taylor, Luke Taylor (Valtech), George Thiruvathukal, Kim Topley (StreamingEdge), Janet Traub, Paul Tyma (consultant), Peter van der Linden, Christian Ullenboom, Burt Walsh, Dan Xu (Oracle), and John Zavgren (Oracle).

Cay Horstmann
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
November 2015