Acknowledgments
We thank the team at Manning for their hard work during the process of writing this book. Michael Stephens first contacted us and helped us with the book proposal. Publisher Marjan Bace gave us the opportunity to write the book and provided us with valuable advice about its structure. Karen Tegtmeyer organized the reviews, which resulted in further improvements. Last, but not least, we thank our development editor, Cynthia Kane, who helped us polish our writing and sharpen the book’s focus.
This book is about an open source project, so it would not exist were it not for the efforts of the people who spent their time creating and maintaining Spring Batch. Thanks to the Spring Batch team: Ben Hale, Lucas Ward, Robert Kasanicky, Thomas Risberg, Dan Garrette, Rob Harrop, and, of course, Dave Syer, the project lead, who kindly contributed the foreword to our book. An open source project is also a community project, so thanks to everyone who contributed to the project by answering questions on the forum or by participating in the bug-tracking process. This also helped us to learn more about how people use Spring Batch.