Acknowledgments

One of the most amazing things that Spring and Spring Boot do is to automatically provide all of the foundational plumbing for an application, leaving you as a developer to focus primarily on the logic that’s unique to your application. Unfortunately, no such magic exists for writing a book. Or does it?

At Manning, there were several people working their magic to make sure that this book is the best it can possibly be. Many thanks in particular to Jenny Stout, my development editor, and to the production team, including project manager Janet Vail, copyeditors Andy Carroll and Frances Buran, and proofreaders Katie Tennant and Melody Dolab. Thanks, too, to technical proofer Joshua White who was thorough and helpful.

Along the way, we got feedback from several peer reviewers who made sure that the book stayed on target and covered the right stuff. For this, my thanks goes to Andrea Barisone, Arnaldo Ayala, Bill Fly, Colin Joyce, Daniel Vaughan, David Witherspoon, Eddu Melendez, Iain Campbell, Jettro Coenradie, John Gunvaldson, Markus Matzker, Nick Rakochy, Nusry Firdousi, Piotr Kafel, Raphael Villela, Riccardo Noviello, Sergio Fernandez Gonzalez, Sergiy Pylypets, Thiago Presa, Thorsten Weber, Waldemar Modzelewski, Yagiz Erkan, and Željko Trogrlić.

As always, there’d be absolutely no point in writing this book if it weren’t for the amazing work done by the members of the Spring engineering team. I’m amazed at what you’ve created and how we continue to change how software is developed.

Many thanks to my fellow speakers on the No Fluff/Just Stuff tour. I continue to learn so much from every one of you. I especially want to thank Brian Sletten, Nate Schutta, and Ken Kousen for conversations and emails about Spring that have helped shape this book.

Once again, I’d like to thank the Phoenicians. You know what you did.

Finally, to my beautiful wife Raymie, the love of my life, my sweetest dream, and my inspiration: Thank you for your encouragement and for putting up with another book project. And to my sweet and wonderful girls, Maisy and Madi: I am so proud of you and of the amazing young ladies you are becoming. I love all of you more than you can imagine or I can possible express.