Some of you might have wondered who works on the JavaFX team, who leads, designs, builds, tests, markets and does scores of other things that make a platform happen. This is first in a multi part series to expose the brains and brawns behind JavaFX. 

As a start, meet four of the JavaFX engineers.

Joshua Marinacci is the JavaFX community leader and has recently started jfxstudio a  community site specifically for sharing JavaFX creations. He also worked on the samples.

Martin Brehovsky leads the production suite tools.

Richard Bair is responsible for a lot of the api designs and UI controls.

Jasper Potts works on the UI controls for JavaFX and samples.

Danny Coward, chief architect of  Client software religiously rounds up everything java  at the Planetarium.