A long time member of Oracle's (and previously Sun Microsystems's) System Engineering community, Jim has spent the last fifteen years helping customers further utilize Java technology ranging from Java Card and Java Micro Edition to Java Enterprise Edition. Jim has over 25 years experience in systems software development including stints as a compiler developer for both C and ADA programming languages. Along with Jim Clarke and Eric Bruno, Jim developed and demonstrated one of the first applications utilizing JavaFX at the Java One 2007 conference, and is co-author of the book JavaFX - Developing Rich Internet Applications. Jim is a regular blogger. You can find his occasional rantings at http://blogs.oracle.com/jtc.