Instantiations and the Eclipse Foundation

Instantiations and the Eclipse Foundation

Instantiations is an Add-In Provider member of the Eclipse Foundation.

Instantiations was an early participant in the Eclipse community

First IBM partner company briefed on Eclipse (Winter 1999)
First IBM partner company to write Eclipse prototype plugin (Spring 2000)
Supported Eclipse launch with demo plugins (Summer 2001)
Selected to join Eclipse Consortium Board (June 2002)
Joined the newly-founded Eclipse Foundation as Add-in Provider (Feb 2004)
Founding member of the Eclipse Plugin Central Alliance (Feb 2004)
Instantiations Accepts SD Magazine Readers' Choice Awards on Behalf of Eclipse
Donated the Eclipse Plug-In Central web site, a community portal developed with Genuitec and Innoopract, to the Eclipse Foundation

Instantiations staffers contribute to Eclipse software development projects

Providing co-project lead and donated technology to the Eclipse Packaging Project
Initiated, contributed code, and led the Eclipse Koi Project
Initiated and led the Eclipse Pollinate project
Providing two committers on the Eclipse Visual Editor project
Organized and sponsored the first North American Eclipse CodeCamp

Instantiations' product line supports Eclipse

Shipped first commercial third-party Eclipse product (CodePro Studio in Nov 2001)
CodePro Studio was first plugin to be certified "Ready For WebSphere Studio" by IBM
CodePro Studio validated "Ready For Rational Software" by IBM
Shipped first tool to exploit Eclipse RCP core services for creating desktop applications (RCP Developer in March 2006)

Instantiations participation in EclipseCon

EclipseCon 2009:
Tutorial and two presentations, BoF.
See our 2009 recap page »

EclipseCon 2008:
Tutorial and two presentations. See our 2008 recap page »

EclipseCon 2007:
Round table discussion: "UI Testing in the Real World" and tutorial: "Building Commercial-Quality Eclipse Plug-Ins." See our 2007 recap page »

EclipseCon 2006:
Presented a tutorial: "Building Commercial-Quality Eclipse Plug-Ins." See our 2006 recap page »

EclipseCon 2005:
Presented "Pollinate and Beehive — a Technology Project Update." Get PDF of presentation (technical session 02.1)

EclipseCon 2004 (the first EclipseCon):
Presented "Supporting Multiple Eclipse Versions Simultaneously." Get PDF of presentation (Wedneday track 1)