Oracle Database Programming using Java and Web Services

Acknowledgments

First of all, I would like to thank my wife and my sons for letting me steal evenings and week-ends, from them for almost two years, not sure I will ever make up for this time.

My special thanks to my friends Herve Lejeune and Soulaiman Htite for their moral support throughout the whole process and for putting up with my eternal excuse, the book, for not getting together.

I would like to thank numerous friends and colleagues, notably Barbara Krag, Penny Avril, Angela Long, Eric Belden, Shandra Cheevers, Jyotsna Laxminarayanan, Vladimir Barriere, Bojana Simova, Matthieu Devin, and Agnes Devin who have morally helped by persistently asking “How’s the book?” you cannot imagine how supportive this simple question can be.

Without the backing ...