JavaFX in Action

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 ...