Acknowledgments
We are sincerely and humbly indebted to Doug Cutting. Without Doug’s generosity to the world, there would be no Lucene. Without the other Lucene committers, Lucene would have far fewer features, more bugs, and a much tougher time thriving with its growing adoption. Many thanks to all the committers, past and present. Similarly, we thank all those who contributed the case studies that appear in chapters 12, 13 and 14: Michele Catasta, Renaud Delbru, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen, Toke Eskildsen, Robert Fuller, Grant Glouser, Ken Krugler, Jake Mannix, Nickolai Toupikov, Giovanni Tummarello, Mads Villadsen, and John Wang. We’d also like to thank Doug Cutting for penning the foreword to the second edition.
Our thanks to the staff at Manning, including Marjan Bace, Jeff Bleiel, Sebstian Stirling, Karen Tegtmeyer, Liz Welch, Elizabeth Martin, Dottie Marsico, Mary Piergies, and Marija Tudor. Manning rounded up a great set of reviewers, whom we thank for improving our drafts into the book you now read. The reviewers include Chad Davis, Dave Pawson, Rob Allen, Rick Wagner, Michele Galli, Robi Sen, Stuart Caborn, Jeremy Flowers, Robert Hanson, Rodney Woodruff, Anton Mazkovoi, Ramarao Kanneganti, Matt Payne, Curtis Miller, Nathan Levesque, Cos DiFazio, and Andy Dingley. Extra-special thanks go to Shai Erera for his technical editing. Thank you to all our MEAP readers who posted feedback on Manning’s forums.