Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank Bob Mack and Alan Marwick for their support of my study of Design Patterns, and Java and .NET in general, and John Vlissides for suggesting that I write these books in the first place. I also want to acknowledge helpful suggestions from any number of people who read the manuscript, including V. S. Rajesh, Howard Harkness, Zane Thomas, Jay Harlow, Mike McCann, Devin Jensen, Cleveland Gibbon, Fred Mellender, Gerald Aden, and Yazid Areki. Finally, I could never have written these books without the continuing support of my wife, Vicki.