I would like to express my thanks to Bob Lynch and Peter Jones who read all the new chapters for this edition and kept me on the straight and narrow. Other chapters were improved by suggestions from Chris Riesbeck and Jon Skeet.

I take responsibility for remaining errors, except the ones to do with quotation marks or source listing layout—blame FrameMaker for those. If you notice an error that isn’t in the errata sheet at www.afu.com, please let me know by email (my address is at the end of the errata sheet).

I am grateful to all the programmers who were willing to let me showcase their excellent work, and in many cases add it to the CD: William Brogden, Toby Downer, Wilson Fletcher, Carl Ginnow, Marcus Green, Karl Hörnell, Dean Jones, Karsten Lentzsch, the Limewire team, Walter Pullen, Burkhard Ratheiser, Kerry Shetline, Robin Southgate.

The layout and design of this book was improved by Patti Guerrieri and previous editors who have earned my warmest appreciation. Thanks go to the copy editor, Barbara, who blue-pencilled out my anachronisms like “whence,” “especial,” and “hitherto.” Barbara also got the ’ell out of “marvellous.”

Thanks to the hardworking people at Sun Microsystems Press and Prentice Hall: Greg Doench, Rachel Borden, Michael Alread, Eileen Clark, Debbie Van Dijk, and Brandt Kenna.

I would also like to thank the following people who provided significant help, code for the CD, moral support, beer recipes, programming assistance, etc.:

Josh Bloch,

Matthew Burtch,

John F. Dumas,

Jane Erskine,

Roedy Green,

Steve Griffiths,

Roger Lindsjö,

Nicholas J. Morrell (what a taste he has for expensive Scotch),

Alec Muffet,

Jef Poskanzer,

Kathy Stark,

Al Sutton,

Greg Turner,

Tom van der Linden (who instilled in me his love for reading, writing, and consolidated statements of stockholder equity),

Wendy van der Linden (who pointed out that Citrus was a subclass of Fruit, and conceived the “Wendy Wand” pointing device),

Sean Willard.

We’re doing something right.