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I could not possibly have written this glossary without a lot of help from many BIXen, and internet denizens, expectially:

Java Glossary Technical Contributors
Person	Email	Contribution
Thomas Wagner of Germany
Jan Sinstadt of Switzerland
Kelly Boan		modem standards
Stephen Satchell		28K modem standards
Alan Clarke of Hayes		the more obscure CCITT standards
David Gleason		how Java filenames work on GCOS
Chris Adamson		signing keys and the Mac.
Patricia Shanahan		the fast power algorithm.
Michel Gallant		certificates and signing.
Mikael Fiil		certificates and signing.
Bill Wilkinson		serialisation.
Jean-Baptiste Nizet		installing DLLs and native classes in the Netscape directories.
Ilja Preuß		contributed thoughtfully to the “why not” debate on Bali, which in turn inspired me to think of more entries for the "why do it".
Luke Webber		provided the info on Applet classpaths.
Dale King		RMI.
Venky Naganathan		ClassLoaders to run JNI classes.
Mascha Loomis		ClassLoaders to run JNI classes.
Rob Rhead		firewalls and ICQ.
John O’Conner		fonts in JDK 1.2.

Hundreds of other people helped too whom I neglected to acknowledge.

There are also credits in the Unmaintainable Code essay and the Gotchas essay.