Acknowledgments
We first want to thank Cynthia Kane, our development editor at Manning, who put up with our many missed deadlines and gave great feedback during the writing process. We’d also like to thank our awesome copy editor, Andy Carroll, for catching an amazing number of grammatical errors in the early revisions of the book. The greater Manning team deserves kudos as well; they’ve made for a very pleasant writing experience over the past year and a half.
Big thanks to our team of reviewers, who provided invaluable feedback during various stages of the book’s development: Bruce Snyder, Charles Moulliard, Christophe Avare, Christopher Hunt, Domingo Suarez Torres, Doug Tillman, Fintan Bolton, Gordon Dickens, Gregor Hohpe, Jeroen Benckhuijsen, John S. Griffon, Kevin Jackson, Marco Ughetti, Martin Gilday, Martin Krasser, Michael Nash, Mick Knutson, Roman Kalukiewicz, Tijs Rademakers, and Willem Jiang.
Special thanks to Willem Jiang for being our technical proofreader, catching those bugs we missed, and helping improve the source code for the book.
Thanks to Martin Krasser for contributing appendix E, which is all about using Camel from the Akka project. We couldn’t think of a better person to write about Camel and Akka.
We’d also like to thank Hadrian Zbarcea for getting this book project started—who knows when this book would have been written or by whom if he hadn’t gotten us together!