ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Kathy and Bert would like to thank the following people:

    All the incredibly hard-working folks at McGraw-Hill Education: Tim Green (who’s been putting up with us for 12 years now), LeeAnn Pickrell (and team), and Jim Kussow. Thanks for all your help, and for being so responsive, patient, flexible, and professional, and the nicest group of people we could hope to work with.

    All of our friends at Kraftur (and our other horse-related friends) and most especially to Sherry, Steinar, Stina and the girls, Jec, Lucy, Cait, and Jennifer, Leslie and David, Annette and Bruce, Kacey, DJ, Gabrielle, and Mary. Thanks to Pedro and Ely, who can’t believe it can take so long to finish a book.

    Some of the software professionals and friends who helped us in the early days: Tom Bender, Peter Loerincs, Craig Matthews, Leonard Coyne, Morgan Porter, and Mike Kavenaugh.

    Dave Gustafson for his continued support, insights, and coaching.

    Our new, wonderful, and talented team at Oracle: Linda Brown, Julia Johnson, Peter Fernandez, and Harold Green.

    The crew at Oracle who worked hard to build these exams: Tom McGinn, Matt Heimer, Mike Williams, Stuart Marks, Cindy Church, Kenny Somerville, Raymond Gallardo, Stacy Thurston, Sowmya Kannan, Jim Holmlund, Mikalai Zaikin, Sharon Zakhour, Lawrence Chow, and Yamuna Santhakumari.

    Our old wonderful and talented certification team at Sun Educational Services, primarily the most persistent get-it-done person we know, Evelyn Cartagena.

    Our great friends and gurus, Simon Roberts, Bryan Basham, and Kathy Collina.

    Stu, Steve, Burt, and Eric for injecting some fun into the process.

    To Eden and Skyler, for being horrified that adults—out of school—would study this hard for an exam.

    To the JavaRanch Trail Boss Paul Wheaton, for running the best Java community site on the Web, and to all the generous and patient JavaRanch moderators.

    To all the past and present Sun Ed Java instructors for helping to make learning Java a fun experience, including (to name only a few) Alan Petersen, Jean Tordella, Georgianna Meagher, Anthony Orapallo, Jacqueline Jones, James Cubeta, Teri Cubeta, Rob Weingruber, John Nyquist, Asok Perumainar, Steve Stelting, Kimberly Bobrow, Keith Ratliff, and the most caring and inspiring Java guy on the planet, Jari Paukku.

    Our furry and feathered friends Eyra, Kara, Draumur, Vafi, Boi, Niki, and Bokeh.

    Finally, to Eric Freeman and Beth Robson for your continued inspiration.