Acknowledgements : Java Glossary

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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

Java Glossary Technical Contributors
Person	Email	Contribution
John Matthews		how the ext mechanism works on Mac OS (Operating System) X.
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 (Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique) 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		serialization.
Jean-Baptiste Nizet		installing DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) 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 (Remote Method Invocation).
Venky Naganathan		ClassLoaders to run JNI (Java Native Interface) classes.
Mascha Loomis		ClassLoaders to run JNI classes.
Rob Rhead		firewalls and ICQ (Internet Chat Query).
John O’Conner		fonts in Java version 1.2.

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

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