Acknowledgments

One of the most amazing things that Spring and Spring Boot do is to automatically provide all of the foundational plumbing for an application, leaving you as a developer to focus primarily on the logic that’s unique to your application. Unfortunately, no such magic exists for writing a book. Or does it?

At Manning, there were several people working their magic to make sure that this book is the best it can possibly be. Many thanks in particular to Jenny Stout, my development editor, and to the production team, including project manager Janet Vail, copyeditors Andy Carroll and Frances Buran, and proofreaders Katie Tennant and Melody Dolab. Thanks, too, to technical proofer Joshua White who was thorough and helpful.

Along the way, we got feedback from several peer reviewers who made sure that the book stayed on target and covered the right stuff. For this, my thanks goes to Andrea Barisone, Arnaldo Ayala, Bill Fly, Colin Joyce, Daniel Vaughan, David Witherspoon, Eddu Melendez, Iain Campbell, Jettro Coenradie, John Gunvaldson, Markus Matzker, Nick Rakochy, Nusry Firdousi, Piotr Kafel, Raphael Villela, Riccardo Noviello, Sergio Fernandez Gonzalez, Sergiy Pylypets, Thiago Presa, Thorsten Weber, Waldemar Modzelewski, Yagiz Erkan, and Željko Trogrlić.