JavaFX™: Developing Rich Internet Applications

Acknowledgments

The authors would first like to thank the staff at Sun Microsystems and Addison-Wesley for making sure this book saw the light of day. We are particularly appreciative to Vineet Gupta, Craig Ellis, and Scott Stillabower for humoring us while we still tried to do our day jobs.

It was almost three years ago when Craig Ellis called and asked if we would create a demo for JavaONE using a new technology called JavaFX. He instructed us to contact Chris Oliver to get started. Within a week of looking at Chris’s early work, we were sold. We would like to thank Chris for his early support and for putting up with our stupid questions to learn the first incarnations of JavaFX script. Also, we would like to thank Chris for being the inspiration ...