We thank the team at Manning for their hard work through the process of writing the book. Michael Stephens first contacted us and helped us create the book proposal. Marjan Bace gave us the opportunity to write the book and provided us with valuable advice about its structure. Karen Tegtmeyer organized the reviews, which resulted in further improvements. Last, but not least, thanks to our development editor, Cynthia Kane, who helped us improve the book’s writing and structure.
Thanks to all the reviewers who took the time to read the book and make constructive remarks about its content. Their feedback was essential in keeping us on the right track: David Dossot, Gildas Cuisinier, Jawher Moussa, John Guthrie, Peter Pavlovich, Jos Dirksen, Denys Kurylenko, Dmitry Sklyut, Edmon Begoli, Marco Ughetti, Deepak Vohra, Rob Harrop, and Jeroen Benckhuijsen.
This book is about an open source project, so it would not exist were it not for the efforts of the people who spent their time creating and making Spring Dynamic Modules live. Thanks to all the Spring DM team: Adrian Colyer, Hal Hildebrand, and, of course, Costin Leau, the project’s lead. An open source project is also a community project, so thanks to everyone who contributed to the project by answering questions on the forum or by participating in the bug-tracking process. This also helped us to learn more about how people use Spring DM.
A very special thanks to Peter Kriens, the director of technology at the OSGi Alliance, who carefully reviewed the book and wrote the foreword.
Our technical proofreader, Loïc Simon, helped us produce a more accurate and polished book. Thank you for your contribution Loïc!
Many thanks to all the people around me for their patience and understanding once I got absorbed in this project. Thanks to my manager at Zenika, Carl Azoury, who provided me with some time during my day-to-day job to work on the book. And thanks to Claire, who had the patience to put up with my writing two books in a row.
I am grateful to my beloved wife Séverine for her confidence and her support and for being by my side in life.
Being involved in Spring DM from the start has been a wild ride, and I thank (again) the gang at SpringSource for their help and patience with my sometimes strange requirements, in particular Rod Johnson and Adrian Colyer, who have always been professional, courteous, and friendly in our interactions. My fellow authors, Arnaud and Thierry—who did the bulk of the writing—were invaluable with their contributions and intelligent insight; I could not have done it without them. Thanks also to Oracle for giving me sufficient time for the project. Finally, my gratitude extends to my long-suffering family for putting up with my many projects, although I can’t promise this will be my last book!
