J2ME in a Nutshell

Acknowledgments

This book is based on the style of the bestselling Java in a Nutshell, which is one of the two books that made it possible for me to make my living in the Java world. First and foremost, therefore, I would like to express my thanks to David Flanagan, the author of Java in a Nutshell, both for his part in getting me started down this path and for his help and advice during the creation of reference material for J2ME in a Nutshell.

Thanks are also due Mike Loukides and Bob Eckstein, who gave me the opportunity to write this book based on a very sketchy proposal and realize my longstanding ambition to write for O’Reilly. Bob was also this book’s editor and provided excellent feedback on each chapter as it was completed. He and the rest of the O’Reilly production team, whose names appear in the colophon, also converted my final draft into the more polished form in which it now appears. Special thanks to Leanne Soylemez for arranging the production schedule to fit my holiday plans, to Robert Romano for making the diagrams in the book look like they were produced by a professional, and to the book’s technical reviewers, Marc Loy (coauthor of O’Reilly’s Java Swing, along with Bob Eckstein) and Tom Keihl, for their helpful and constructive comments.

The final couple of chapters and the reference material for this book were completed over the Christmas and New Year 2000-2001 holiday period, when I should really have been spending more time with my family eating turkey and Christmas pudding and drinking the beer my son thoughtfully gave me as a present. Thanks to Berys, Andrew, and Katie for allowing me to retreat to my study for most of every day (and night) during that hectic period, and for allowing me to come out and rejoin the family when the book was finished!