EclipseCon 2008


With over 1,400 attendees, EclipseCon 2008 had record attendance!
It took place March 17 - 20, 2008, in Santa Clara, California, USA.
Instantiations was a Silver Sponsor.

Attendees visited the Instantiantions booths for product demos, chances to win prizes, and chats with Instantiations developers.

We are also pleased to announce that Mike Taylor, CEO of Instantiations, was re-elected to the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors during the conference, representing our continued support and involvement with Eclipse.

Mark your calendars: EclipseCon 2009 will be held March 23 - 26  2009, again in Santa Clara, CA.

Presentations at EclipseCon by Instantiations Staffers

Instantiations continued to provide thought leadership and significant value to the Eclipse Community.

TUTORIAL: Building Commercial-Quality Eclipse Plug-Ins Opens in new browser window

Daniel Rubel, Eric Clayberg

  • Lecture and hands-on lab work (laptop required).
  • Newly updated for Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4.
  • Fundamentals of development.
  • Adding sophistication and "polish."

RAP vs GWT — Which AJAX Technology is for You? Opens in new browser window

Mark Russell, Daniel Rubel

  • Review the same application implemented once using RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) from Eclipse and a second time using GWT (Google Widget Toolkit) from Google.
  • Benefits, pitfalls, scalability and best practices.

UI Testing Patterns and Best Practices Opens in new browser window

Daniel Rubel, Phil Quitslund
Short Talk

  • Practices that help developers build User Interfaces that are easier to test.
  • Strategies for building a robust UI test infrastructure applicable to in-house and legacy systems.
  • A methodology that encourages productive collaboration between developers and traditional QA teams.