Robert Harris is a software engineer focused on distributed object computing. Since earning his master's of science
degree from the University of Florida, he has been designing and implementing flexible, resilient solutions in the
telecommunications, transportation, and medical industries. His personal interests include speaking French with his
seven-year-old daughter Mallory, catching bugs with his six-year-old son Charlie, and infuriating his wife Alison (age
withheld).
About the Technical Reviewer
Gábor Liptá k is an independent consultant with more than ten years of industry experience, mostly in object-oriented
environments with Smalltalk, C++, and Java. Gábor has written multiple technical articles and has served as technica l
reviewer for several books. Gábor is now working on a Java e-commerce project and can be reached a t
< gliptak@hotmail.com >.
Acknowledgments
I thank my beautiful wife and my wonderful children for their patience. This book represents hours not spent with them,
and I thank them for this opportunity. You can now have your husband and father back. I also thank my extended
family for their continual effort to fill the holes I kept leaving behind. I appreciate all your service.
I thank the wonderful folks at Apress for all their hard work in bringing this book to fruition. Tracy Brown Collins kept
the focus and kept this book moving forward. I thank her for her patient prodding. Susannah Pfalzer and Kim Wimpsett
helped clarify our thoughts and saved us from some embarrassing typos. Ellie Fountain and Steve Anglin took us
through the final stretch. Finally, Gábor Lipták provided essential insights to keep the book technically correct, an d
kept us on our toes.
Thanks also to my colleague and now fellow author, Joseph Schmuller, for showing me the possibilities. Another
colleague, Keith Barrett, provided essential guidance during the formative years of my career, for which I'm grateful. I
also thank a dear friend, Ryan Smith, for giving me my first IDE and introducing me to programming.
During most of the time I was writing this book, I worked (in my day job) with a group of wonderful folks on the
ShipCSX team. I miss working with you, and I hope all is well.
Finally, thanks to the Eclipse team for producing such a wonderful IDE, widget set, and abstraction library. It has been
a pleasure immersing myself in Eclipse, and I continually find new capabilities in this amazing tool. Thanks, too, for
opening the source, which proved essential for understanding how to leverage SWT and JFace. This book wouldn't
have been possible without the open source.
—Rob Warne r
Without the family with which I have been blessed, neither this book nor anything would be possible. I would therefore
like to thank my mother Marian and brothers Michael and David.
Over the years, I have had the opportunity to work with an amazing array of professionals, from whom I have learned
this wonderful and rewarding trade. A few that come to mind are Noam Kedem, Matthew Dragiff, Eyal Wirzansky, Jim
Simak, Bob Moriarty, Anish Mehra, Krishna Sai, Sreedhar Pampati, and James Earl Carter.
Also, a special thanks to Robert A. White, who has taught me many things, the first of which was "how to right."
I can't forget to mention Brenda Star, Bernie and Ruth Nachman, Landon Walker, Mike and Tammy Shumer, and
Clark Morgan. Thanks, guys.
—Robert Harri s
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