First, I want to thank Geertjan Wielenga for his relentless work to publish an updated English version of my previous book NetBeans RCP - Das Entwicklerheft published in 2008 by O'Reilly. Without him this book would not exist. Geertjan is the author of several NetBeans Platform publications and author of a great and well-known blog (http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan). If you are starting to develop an application on this great platform, you should make sure to visit his blog. For me it has been a continuous source of inspiration. Geertjan mobilized members of the NetBeans community in order to translate and update the book. He did an excellent job in managing the translation and update.
I especially want to thank Christian Enrique Portilla Pauca, Sven Reimers, Peter Rogge, Johannes Strassmayr, Florian Vogler, Zane Cahill, Martin Klähn, Jean-Marc Borer, Victor Ott, Fionn Ziegler, Constantino Cerbo, Peti Horozoglu, Christian Pervoelz, Martin Klähn, and Stefan Alexander Flemming for contributing to the translation.
I want to thank Packt for giving me the opportunity to write this book and for putting up with me even though I had continuously missed upon the agreed dates.
Most importantly, I want to thank my wife who supported me in writing the book in the first place and my son Leonard for all the joy he brings to us.