Acknowledgments
Many people have helped me to make this book a reality. I want to thank my wife, Roberta,
for her love and understanding as I spent hours on my computer, mumbling incoherently
about “namespaces” and the like. There is no finer wife in the world. Similarly, I’d like to thank
my children, Eric and Madeline, for putting up with my highly distracted nature while writing
this book. Of course, I’d like to thank my parents and my aunt and uncle for enabling me to
get to this point in my life with their constant love and support.
I’d like to thank Jay Kasi at Oracle for his help and tutelage while writing this book.
I have never met a person with such a deep understanding of any software product in my
life. Many times when I was stuck on a problem, Jay would quickly look at the code and
deliver an exact analysis of the problem within moments.
I’d also like to thank the many folks who helped review the book and to provide me
with technical answers to the more unusual scenarios. Specifically, I want to recognize
(in alphabetical order) Deb Ayers, Stephen Bennett, Naren Chawla, George Gould, David
Groves, Dain Hansen, Gregory Haardt, Karl Hoffman, Ashish Krishna, Usha Kuntamukkala,
Saify Lanewala, Denis Pilipchuk, Michael Reiche, Kelly Schwarzhoff, Chris Tomkins, Tolga
Urhan, Jeremy Westerman, Mike Wooten, and Bradley Wright.
Finally, I’d like to thank the great mentors in my life, Mark Russell and Gerry Millar.
They taught me everything from how to tie a necktie to how to “listen to what they are
feeling.” They both taught me that it’s the people that are important; the software is inci-
dental. That’s a hard but invaluable lesson for a natural-born geek.
Jeff Davies
Chapter 17 describes how to extend OSB to communicate with additional applications by
writing a custom transport using the Transport SDK. This useful extensibility mechanism
was designed and implemented by Greg Fichtenholtz, a Senior Engineer on the OSB team.
It is his design that enables OSB to be used in new and different environments not addressed
in the original implementation. The usefulness of the Transport SDK is due to his good
design work.
Greg is only one member of a very talented team that created the OSB product; how-
ever, their names are too numerous to mention (and I’d be afraid of leaving someone out).
This group, with its engineering prowess and creative energy, working under the manage-
ment of Ashok Aletty, who fosters a productive, cooperative, and enjoyable atmosphere, is
responsible for making OSB such a fantastic product. I consider myself fortunate to have
the opportunity to work with such a great team on this exciting product.
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