Acknowledgements

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Open Sourcerors

High quality software infrastructure cannot exist without the contributions of hundreds of people. The 1060 NetKernel is a fundamental technology that would be valueless without the work of many groups and individuals whose technologies are supported as components by the NetKernel.

Thanks to the developers, the testers, the user community. We've tried to cover everyone but if we overlooked someone please let us know.

Software Licensing terms for these components are provided here.

Apache Software Foundation		Xalan,Xerces, Ant, XMLBeans, FOP projects
James Clarke, Thai Open Source		Jing RelaxNG Validator. XSLT, XPath, RelaxNG ... For keeping XML simple and continuing to prevent it from being swamped by the noise.
Mortbay Software		Jetty HTTP server
Pat Niemeyer		Beanshell scripted Java
Norris Boyd at Mozilla		Rhino Javascript
Codehaus		Groovy scripting language
Jython		Jython java implementation of python
Michael H. Kay		Saxon XQuery implementation - and for discussions and suggestions for NetKernel
Jason Hunter, Brett McLaughlin		JDOM document object model.
Joern Turner and Chiba team		Chiba XForms engine
Oliver Becker		XMLVerbatim XSLT <xmlverbatim author="O. Becker">XML to XHTML</xmlverbatim>
Rick Jelliffe		Schematron Stylesheets.
Sun Microsystems		XACML sourceforge project, Netbeans
W3C		HTML Tidy and JTidy implementation
John Cowan		Tag Soup the HTML tag soup to clean XML parser.
The Lucene Team		Apache Lucene project
Apache XML-Security Project		Apache XML Signature project, Univ Siegen Germany, European Commission
Robert Leftwich		For authoring the WebDAV module and contributions to the XForms and Lucene modules
Julien Ponge		IzPack Java Installer
Kunststoff Look n Feel Team		Kunststoff Look and Feel
Steve Purcell		Jargs sourceforge project - Command Line Interpreter
Nathaniel G. Auvil		jCharts Project
The Linux Community		An inspiration for how to do quality software infrastructure.
CVS		Transparent, Reliable, Essential.

Contributors

The 1060 NetKernel concept owes a great deal either directly, indirectly or subliminally to the following individuals. Thanks.

Dr Russell Perry	HP Labs	Russ started the ball rolling and got it half way up the hill. We owe you but you owe us many hours of painful debug!
Dr Royston Sellman	HP Labs	For ballast and 'new' ideas that we know only occurred because you're old enough to remember all this stuff the first time round. You're not as clever as Russ but you're much better at Crosswords.
Robin Gallimore - Director HPLB	HP Labs	For supporting us against the tide and for the wisdom to release us into the wild and for not giving pjr LBW so many times
Dr John "Rocketboy" Erickson	HP Labs	Enthusiasm. Ideas. Beer. And lots and lots and lots of talking. Reality! Reality! * Reality!
Steve Loughran	HP Labs/HP Corvallis	For sharing everything he doesn't know about webservice development and some of the stuff he does. General support services and attitude. Please buy his book on Ant.

Top Researchers	HP Labs	Thanks to Dr Bill Wickes, Dave Banks, Dr Poorvi Vora, Dr Phil Stenton, Dr Dave Reynolds, Dr Stuart Williams, Dr Martin Merry, Nick Wainwright
Bruce Perens	(ex)HP Opensource Guru	For brief conversations on the way to do opensource inside HP. And for stirring up opensource ideas in a very big organisation.
Bob Bickel	(ex)HP Middleware Chief	Wisdom, Inspiration. You'd have been a great customer.

Supporters

Without the support of the following people the NetKernel would be in a dusty filing cabinet.

Friends n Family		Thanks for supporting us despite not having a clue what we've been doing!
Hoyle Curtis	HP Labs	Deal maker, long-term investor
Didier Patry	HP Labs	IP Attorney par excellence. Merci Beaucoup. Also Richard Lawrence and Bruce Jones.
Our partners and children		Nothing else matters