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  An interview with the authors of Pro Java FX2: A Definative Guide to Rich Clients with Java Technology. 
   
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  Show Notes 
  News 
   
    Angela Caicedo has created 3 new Java FX screen cast videos on java UTube channel: Part 1: Building your First Java FX Application with Netbeans 7.1, Part 2: Building your First Java FX Application with Netbeans 7.1, and Getting Started with Scene Builder.  
   
   
  Events 
   
    March 26-29, EclipseCon, Reston, USA 
    March 27, Virtual Developer Days - Java (Asia Pacific (English)),9:30 am to 2:00pm IST / 12:00pm to 4.30pm SGT  / 3.00pm - 7.30pm AEDT 
    April 4-5, JavaOne Japan, Tokyo, Japan 
    April 12, GreenJUG, Greenville, SC 
    April 17-18, JavaOne Russia, Moscow Russia 
    April 18–20, Devoxx France, Paris, France 
    April 26, Mix-IT, Lyon, France,  
    May 3-4, JavaOne India, Hyderabad, India  
   
  Feature InterviewPro JavaFX 2: A Definitive Guide to Rich Clients with Java Technology is available from Amazon.com in either paperback or on the Kindle.James L. (Jim) Weaver
 is a Java and JavaFX developer, author, and speaker with a passion for 
helping rich-client Java and JavaFX become preferred technologies for 
new application development. Books that Jim has authored include Inside Java, Beginning J2EE, and Pro JavaFX Platform,
 with the latter being updated to cover JavaFX 2.0. His professional 
background includes 15 years as a systems architect at EDS, and the same
 number of years as an independent developer. Jim is an international 
speaker at software technology conferences, including the JavaOne 
conferences in San Francisco and São Paulo. Jim blogs at http://javafxpert.com, tweets @javafxpert. Weiqi Gao
 is a principal software engineer with Object Computing, Inc., in St. 
Louis, MO. He has more than 18 years of software development experience 
and has been using Java technology since 1998. He is interested in 
programming languages, object-oriented systems, distributed computing, 
and graphical user interfaces. He is a presenter and a member of the 
steering committee of the St. Louis Java Users Group. Weiqi holds a PhD 
in mathematics. Stephen Chin
 is chief agile methodologist at GXS and a technical expert in client UI
 technologies. He is lead author on the Pro Android Flash title and 
coauthored the Pro JavaFX Platform title, which is the leading technical
 reference for JavaFX. In addition, Stephen runs the very successful 
Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group, which has hundreds of members and tens
 of thousands of online viewers. Finally, he is a Java Champion, chair 
of the OSCON Java conference, and an internationally recognized speaker 
featured at Devoxx, Codemash, AnDevCon, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he 
received a Rock Star Award. Stephen can be followed on twitter 
@steveonjava and reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com.Dean Iverson
 has been writing software professionally for more than 15 years. He is 
employed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, where he is a 
rich client application developer. He also has a small software 
consultancy called Pleasing Software Solutions, which he cofounded with 
his wife.  Johan Vos
 started to work with Java in 1995. As part of the Blackdown team, he 
helped port Java to Linux. With LodgON, the company he cofounded, he has
 been mainly working on Java-based solutions for social networking 
software. Because he can't make a choice between embedded development 
and enterprise development, his main focus is on end-to-end Java, 
combining the strengths of backend systems and embedded devices. His 
favorite technologies are currently Java EE/Glassfish at the backend and
 JavaFX at the frontend. Johan's blog can be followed at http://blogs.lodgon.com/johan, he tweets at http://twitter.com/johanvos. 
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