Acknowledgments

Let me start with a big thank you to the people at Manning, for their professional and ever-courteous guidance as this book evolved. They include Marjan Bace, Tom Cirtin, Steven Hong, Elizabeth Martin, Nermina Miller, Mary Piergies, Linda Recktenwald, Gordan Salinovic, Maureen Spencer, Mike Stephens, and Karen Tegtmeyer. No doubt there were many others, through whose hands the manuscript passed during its journey from pixels to paper—I am grateful to you all for your support, your trust in me as a writer, and your patience.

Thanks also to Jasper Potts and Brian Goetz, of the JavaFX team at Sun Microsystems, whose invaluable corrections and clarifications helped improve the text. Guys, I’m even prepared to forgive the breaking changes the team introduced with each revision, requiring me to rewrite parts of existing chapters several times!

Special thanks, and possibly a medal of valor, must go to Jonathan Giles, who managed a technical proofreading of the manuscript, despite my best efforts to undo him by shuffling bits of the chapters around. Congrats, Jonathan, on joining Sun’s JFX team!

Thanks also to the following reviewers who read the manuscript at different stages of its development for their feedback and comments: Jeremy Anderson, Horaci Macias Viel, Peter Johnson, Valentin Crettaz, Carol McDonald, Kevin Munc, Kenneth McDonald, Tijs Rademakers, Timothy Binkley-Jones, Edmon Begoli, Riccardo Audano, Sean Hogg, Reza Rahman, and Carl Dea.