Professional Java™ Development with the Spring Framework

Acknowledgments

Rod Johnson: Many people helped in the writing of this book. In particular, I thank my co-authors, each of whom played a valuable role in ensuring that we were able to achieve coverage of a wide range of Spring's large and growing feature set.

Thanks to Ben Alex, lead developer of Acegi Security for Spring, for contributing most of the material on Spring security. Mark Pollack, Spring developer and lead of Spring.NET, also kindly contributed valuable material relating to Spring's services for JMS. Dmitriy Kopylenko, also a Spring developer, helped with UML diagrams and examples for the AOP chapter.

Finally, thanks to the reviewers—especially Peter den Haan and Aleksander Seovic—for their attention to detail and many valuable suggestions.

Juergen Hoeller: I thank my co-authors, our reviewers, and our editor; it has been a pleasure working with you. A special thank you goes to Peter den Haan for his extraordinarily thorough chapter reviews. Last but not least, I express my gratitude to the entire Spring community: Without your active participation, the Spring project would not be what it is today.

A. Arendsen: I thank all my co-workers at JTeam for their support. Special thanks to Bram Smeets and Arjen Poutsma for providing valuable content on various topics. I also owe a lot to Joost, the chap I originally started JTeam with. Without him I couldn't have found the time to contribute to this book. I also want to express my gratitude to Goof Kerling, who taught me a great ...