The Author is only one member of the large team of people necessary to get a book into print. I’d like to thank the John Wiley & Sons and Wrox Press editorial and production teams for their help and support throughout.

I would particularly like to thank my technical editors, Marc Gregoire and Giovanni Dicanio, for doing such a fantastic job of reviewing the text and checking out all the code fragments and examples. Their many constructive comments and suggestions have undoubtedly made the book a much better tutorial.