About the Author
Vladimir Vivien is a software engineer living in the United States. Past and current
experience include development in Java and .Net for industries including publishing,
nancial, and healthcare. He has worked with a varied number of technologies including
user-facing GUI frontends and backend middleware. Vladimir enjoys taking part in open
source projects. He is the author of JmxBuilder a Groovy DSL for instrumentation and
management that is now part of the core Groovy project. Vladimir has presented some
of his ideas at JavaOne, NFJS Software Symposium, and local Java user groups.
Besides JavaFX, he has a wide range of technology interests including Java, OSGi, Scala,
BugLabs, Arduino, SunSPOT, and any other interesting projects running on the JVM. You
can follow Vladimir through his blog:
http://blog.vladimirvivien.com/, Twitter:
http://twitter.com/vladimirvivien, and LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/
in/vvivien
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Firstly, I want to thank my wife for her support, especially during the crunch
period when I would lock myself in my ofce for hours to nish a chapter.
I also want to thank everyone who offered kind and encouraging words
that kept me going when I wanted to literally walk away from the project.
A special shout out goes to Sarah Cullington, my editor, who is the reason
that this book exists. Thank you, Sarah, for not giving up on the project
despite its many setbacks. Thanks to the entire Packt Publishing team
for taking the risk in a new author like myself, and in a nascent technology
like JavaFX.
Finally, I must give a shout out to to the Sun team, who saw the need for a
declarative language for rich client development on the VM, and seized the
opportunity to bring JavaFX to life. Although JavaFX is new in this space,
thanks to the hard work of these dedicated engineers, JavaFX is a complete
platform with a complete toolset for developing rich and engaging visual
applications on the JVM.
