Instantiations' entire Eclipse-based product line has been updated to coincide with the annual Eclipse open source release, Ganymede, which includes Eclipse 3.4, released June 25, 2008. Significant enhancements were made to all products (especially CodePro AnalytiX — see below). Performance and usability were also enhanced across all product lines.

And very importantly, in addition to supporting the new Eclipse 3.4 release, Instantiations product updates support prior versions of Eclipse and IDEs built upon Eclipse — for those of you that won't get to 3.4 just yet.

Download the latest product releases with the following new functionality:

CodePro AnalytiX™ 5.5 — enhanced Management Dashboard in Server Edition, as well as dozens of new security audit rules, based on the OWASP Top Ten standards. This enables developers to automatically detect and address security vulnerabilities as they are writing code, thus closing the opportunities for potential malicious users, and focusing on quality earlier in the software development lifecycle.

WindowBuilder™ 6.7 — newly validated Ready for IBM Rational Software, and added support for Eclipse 3.4 data binding in SWT Designer

WindowTester™ 3.5 — new recording interface provided

CodePro Profiler™ 1.5 — optimizes memory use and provides better overall performance and usability

RCP Developer™ 3.5 — inherits new features from WindowTester and SWT Designer detailed above

Contact an Account Manager at 800-808-3737 or sales@instantiations.com for more information.

It might be because I started my career in software on the QA side of the house, or maybe it's just the years of managing projects and trying to balance the three legs of the development cycle (cost/time/quality), but I find myself more and more using this phrase, treat quality as a deliverable. I realized just how much I'm using it these days as I sat in a meeting with one of our larger customers and delivered an impassioned plea arguing for quantifiable quality criteria as a deliverable requirement from the outset of any new project.

Every customer I visit always tells me the same story, "we would like to do more JUnit testing, but we just don't have the time." Face it, when the deadline is fast approaching and the product isn't feature complete, who takes the time to write their test code or fix simple coding violations? When all is said and done, the main thing we're usually held accountable for is delivering a finished product on time. But we all know that isn't the whole story. And we all know that if you deliver a product with defects, the cost of remedying those defects goes through the roof!

But what if, as we scoped the project, we included quality as a form of deliverable necessary for the completion of the project? If we placed quantifiable requirements and held fast that those requirements be met prior to completing the project?

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Read a more in-depth discussion of this concept in our new white paper,
Making Quality a Deliverable in Eclipse-Based Java Development

WindowBuilder Pro Is Newly Validated for IBM Rational Software

WindowBuilder Pro is now validated as Ready for IBM Rational software. This means that our popular GUI building tool meets the essential integration requirements when installed into IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform products, including RAD (Rational Application Developer). WindowBuilder Pro also achieved the Ready for IBM Rational software Best Practices Indicator — meeting guidelines beyond the mandatory requirements.

Our team has worked hard to maintain WindowBuilder Pro as the leading GUI building tool available for Eclipse, and we’re thrilled that IBM recognizes all of our hard work. We are committed to continuing to make the best product out there by listening to our customers’ needs, and staying on top of the latest technology.
— Eric Clayberg, Sr. Vice President of Product Development

Instantiations Makes SD Times Top 100 List

Instantiations achieved recognition in the "Tools" category on the 2008 SD Times 100 list. SD Times editors acknowledge innovative companies worldwide that most influence and “set the agenda” for software development and the industry through leadership and innovation during the past year. The Top Tools are introduced to be “bits and pieces of the daily grind that coders can’t live without.” This is Instantiations' second year to make the SD Times list. Read more »

Instantiations Named to Oregon’s Fastest Growing
Private Companies List for Third Consecutive Year

The Business Journal of Portland named Instantiations as one of Oregon’s 2008 Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies based on total revenue growth over the past three years, from 2005 to 2008. Read more »

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