Acknowledgments
Last time we were here, it was a new undertaking and we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into. This time we were supposed to know better, and yet the support shown from the team at Manning was once again vital to this endeavor. We would like to thank everyone involved in the publication of this book. Particular thanks go to our development editor, Cynthia Kane, who put up with some rather sleepy authors during the conference calls and kept our motivation high. The production team also did a marvelous job of tightening up our prose and clearing up all those ambiguities and inconsistencies that inevitably appear even with just one author.
No technical book is worth a penny unless it’s accurate. There is a lot of detail inside Grails in Action, Second Edition with plenty of scope for error. It is thanks to the persistence of our technical proofreader, Doug Warren, and his attention to detail, that the code we present in this book works. Many thanks to him.
We’d also like to thank our reviewers for sending detailed feedback on the manuscript at various stages in its development: Aiden Mark Humphreys, Alvin Scudder, Antonio Mas Rodriguez, Cynthia Pepper, Daniel Miller, David Madouros, Debra Miller, Ivan Todorović, Jack Frosch, Jeffrey Yustman, Jerry Gaines, Koray Güclü, Marc Weidner, Michael A. Angelo, Mike Spencer, Phillip Warner, Pratap Chatterjee, Shiloh Morris, and Toby Hobson.