PREFACE
We acknowledge and thank the many people who have contributed to this
book through their excellent feedback, assistance and encouragement:
Particularly thorough, careful, and thoughtful reviews of drafts were provided
by Tom Cargill, Peter Deutsch, Paul Hilfinger, Masayuki Ida, David Moon, Steven
Muchnick, Charles L. Perkins, Chris Van Wyk, Steve Vinoski, Philip Wadler,
Daniel Weinreb, and Kenneth Zadeck. We are very grateful for their extraordinary
volunteer efforts.
We are also grateful for reviews, questions, comments, and suggestions from
Stephen Adams, Bowen Alpern, Glenn Ammons, Leonid Arbuzov, Kim Bruce,
Edwin Chan, David Chase, Pavel Curtis, Drew Dean, William Dietz, David Dill,
Patrick Dussud, Ed Felten, John Giannandrea, John Gilmore, Charles Gust,
Warren Harris, Lee Hasiuk, Mike Hendrickson, Mark Hill, Urs Hoelzle, Roger
Hoover, Susan Flynn Hummel, Christopher Jang, Mick Jordan, Mukesh Kacker,
Peter Kessler, James Larus, Derek Lieber, Bill McKeeman, Steve Naroff,
Evi Nemeth, Robert O'Callahan, Dave Papay, Craig Partridge, Scott Pfeffer,
Eric Raymond, Jim Roskind, Jim Russell, William Scherlis, Edith Schonberg,
Anthony Scian, Matthew Self, Janice Shepherd, Kathy Stark, Barbara Steele, Rob
Strom, William Waite, Greg Weeks, and Bob Wilson. (This list was generated
semi automatically from our E mail records. We apologize if we have omitted
anyone.)
The feedback from all these reviewers was invaluable to us in improving the
definition of the Java language as well as the form of the presentation in this book.
We thank them for their diligence. Any remaining errors in this book we hope
they are few are our responsibility and not theirs.
We thank Francesca Freedman and Doug Kramer for assistance with matters
of typography and layout. We thank Dan Mills of Adobe Systems Incorporated for
assistance in exploring possible choices of typefaces.
Many of our colleagues at Sun Microsystems have helped us in one way or
another. Lisa Friendly, our series editor, managed our relationship with Addison 
Wesley. Susan Stambaugh managed the distribution of many hundreds of copies
of drafts to reviewers. We received valuable assistance and technical advice from
Ben Adida, Ole Agesen, Ken Arnold, Rick Cattell, Asmus Freytag, Norm Hardy,
Steve Heller, David Hough, Doug Kramer, Nancy Lee, Marianne Mueller, Akira
Tanaka, Greg Tarsy, David Ungar, Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath, Geoff Wyant, and
Derek White. We thank Alan Baratz, David Bowen, Mike Clary, John Doerr, Jon
Kannegaard, Eric Schmidt, Bob Sproull, Bert Sutherland, and Scott McNealy for
leadership and encouragement.
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