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Many thanks to my family and friends who always said that I was never liv-

ing up to my potential. Thank you for raising, loving, and teaching me. I

promise to live up to my potential now, starting next week.

Thanks to the great team at O’Reilly, especially Brett, who tirelessly read

through my drafts, dotted the ts, crossed the is, and made my prose readable.

Thanks go out to the readers of Java.net and Daniel Steinberg, my Java.net

editor, who have always provided encouragement, feedback, and construc-

tive criticism. Without the Java community’s ecology of code and fresh

ideas, this book wouldn’t have been possible.

Special thanks to Jonathan and Romain who gave us the boost we needed to

get the book finished. They’ve put in some great stuff. I’ve even learned a

few things.

Extra special thanks to Chris who believed from the start that this was a

great idea for a book. He guided me through the proposal process, shaped

our draft, and always kept the book on track. Maybe we can finally get that

Okama GameSphere.

And, finally, my unending thanks to all of the Swing Team developers who

put in 10 years of blood and sweat, making Swing the powerful toolkit it is

today. I hope we can keep pushing it forward.

Chris

Credit for this book needs to begin with Joshua—I’m still tempted to type

“Joshy” because that’s his username everywhere—who started this book as

an informal series on his popular Java.net weblog and had the wherewithal

to push through a book proposal.

Also, all the really cool hacks are his. But I think that’s what everyone

involved with this book has been saying when they read what the others

have contributed.

And speaking of them, thanks also to our contributors, Romain and

Jonathan, who came in at just the right time to get this book over the hump

and make it real. Their inventiveness and responsiveness helped us pull

through.

Thanks to Brett McLaughlin, who was on the receiving end of a pretty wild

brain-dump, with two authors and two contributors going on wildly differ-

ent tangents. He helped shape this book into something readable and fun.

Lots of other people in O’Reilly production will handle this book after I fin-

ish writing this acknowledgment, and I thank them in advance for every-

thing they do.

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And, of course, thanks to Kelly and Keagan for holding down the fort at

home while daddy was in the office working on this book. Quinn also con-

tributed, sleeping on my lap while I banged out parts of Chapters 10 and 11.

Obligatory O’Reilly tune check: this time it was Delgados, The Tubes,

Green Day, L’Arc~en~Ciel, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Puffy AmiYumi,

Little Feat, the Gundam Wing Endless Waltz soundtrack and the Armitage’s

Dimension stream.