Writing a book is always a big effort, especially with such a rapid rate of change in the JavaFX technology. Making this book a reality has taken a lot of effort from many dedicated folks and it's our great pleasure to acknowledge their hard work.

First of all, we would like to thank our Manager, Rabi Cherian, who has constantly encouraged and motivated us to share our knowledge with rest of the world. He put a lot of special effort into adjusting project deadlines to give us enough time to focus on the book. We also want to acknowledge Elancheran, Girish, and Srinivas from the JavaFX Quality Team at Sun for taking up additional work so as to give us sufficient time to work on this book.

We would like to acknowledge the monumental efforts of our technical reviewers Sten Anderson and Tom Welsh for their conscientious technical guidance throughout the project and they have done a remarkable job in ensuring the contents of this book are of high quality. Our copy editor Jim Compton has an excellent eye for consistency. He has eliminated many embarrassing errors and has made lots of thoughtful suggestions for improvement throughout the project.

We also want to recognize the efforts of Kelly Moritz, who has been coordinating the project in an excellent manner, which helped us complete the book on time.