AcknowledgmentsIt is impossible to write a book without the cooperation and help of a vast number of people. In our case, virtually the entire Eclipse Platform team contributed directly to the end-result, through conversations, help with code and concepts, bug fixes, or just general support. Beyond the book, the Eclipse RCP itself would be a mere shadow of what it is without the following people:
Nick Edgar Master of all things UI and maintainer of a great sense of what it means to be RCP.
Wassim Melhem The man behind the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE). Without him, this book would be twice as long and you would have to understand all of it to get anything done. Every time you use a PDE wizard to do a day's work in minutes, say, "Thank you, Wassim".
Pascal Rapicault Pascal is the power that drives PDE build and your ability to ship RCP-based products. He is also responsible for many enabling innovations such as buddy classloading and running Eclipse via Java Web Start.
Particular thanks go to Doug Pollock, Tom Watson, Kim Horne, Stefan Xenos, Veronika Irvine, Christophe Cornu, DJ Houghton, Tod Creasey, Dorian Birsan, Mazen Faraj, Konrad Kolosowski, and Darin Swanson for taking the time to explain things, talk over ideas, and generally guide us in the right direction on various topics. We especially want to acknowledge Simon Archer's amazing reviewing skills. He reviewed the entire manuscript in great detail and provided extremely useful and timely feedback. Simon, you're the greatest. Simon was joined in reviewing the entire book by Paul Vanderlei, Matt Lavin, and Pat McCarthy. Their thoughtful remarks tangibly improved the content and quality of this book. Our hats are off to you all. We were also fortunate to have a large number of people from the community who reviewed various chapters and provided valuable feedback. In particular, we'd like to acknowledge Chris Laffra, Pascal Rapicault, Nick Edgar, Kim Horne, Doug Pollock, Wassim Melhem, Michael Valenta, Rafael Chaves, and Darren Lafond. John Wiegand, Mike Wilson, and Dave Thomson, our IBM® management trio, were fantastically supportive of our effortsclearly, without their support, this book would not have happened. Of course, no book project is possible without a publishing team. We were lucky to have John Neidhart and Greg Doench as editors with Noreen Regina running the show. Thanks to the whole crew at Addison-Wesley, Christy Hackerd, Mary Sudul, Mary Kate Murray, Stephane Nakib, and Jake McFarland for making this a relatively painless and quite enjoyable experience. It must be said, however, that the combined efforts of all the people acknowledged here do not match the contributions made by our wives, Nancy and Nadine. They single-handedly kept the households running, the four children under the age of 4 warm, fed, and clothed, and the two would-be author husbands encouraged, motivated, and loved. Their support has been truly phenomenal.
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