About the Authors

Jim Clarke is a principal technologist with Sun Microsystems and has spent the last twelve years developing with the Java Platform. Prior to that time, Jim specialized in distributed object technologies. For the past two years, Jim has been working directly with JavaFX and participated on the JavaFX compiler team. Jim is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has been in the computer science field for thirty years. You can catch his blog at http://blogs.sun.com/clarkeman/.

Jim Connors, a longtime member of Sun’s System Engineering community, has spent the last decade helping customers further utilize Java technology ranging from Java Card and Java Micro Edition through to Java Enterprise Edition. His current focus involves providing software solutions to Sun’s embedded market, including real-time Java, Solaris, and most recently JavaFX. Jim has twenty-five years’ experience in systems software development including stints as a compiler developer for both the C and ADA programming languages. Along with Jim Clarke and Eric Bruno, Jim developed and demonstrated one of the first applications utilizing JavaFX Script back at JavaONE 2007. A regular blogger, you can read his occasional rantings at http://blogs.sun.com/jtc.

Eric Bruno is a systems engineer at Sun, with a focus on Java RTS in the financial community. He is the author of the books Java Messaging and Real-Time Java™ Programming and has dozens of technology articles to his name. He is currently a contributing editor for Dr. Dobb’s Journal and writes their online Java blog. Prior to Sun, Eric worked at Reuters where he developed real-time trading systems, order-entry and routing systems, as well as real-time news and quotes feeds, in both Java and C++.