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Instantiations is a software company headquartered in Portland, OR, USA. The company develops Java development tools for the Eclipse platform, including solutions for Static code analysis, GUI building and testing (see GUI software testing), and performance analysis.

Company & Technology Background
Instantiations is a founding and active member of the Eclipse Foundation and an IBM Business Partner. Since the launch of its first Eclipse product in 2001, Instantiations has developed an extensive line of products for Eclipse, IBM Rational®, JBuilder® and MyEclipse®. Instantiations also acquired worldwide development and distribution rights to the VisualAge® Smalltalk product line from IBM in 2004, and continues development and support for that product under the brand VA Smalltalk™.

Instantations has two products, WindowBuilder Pro™ and CodePro AnalytiX™, that are validated Ready for IBM Rational Software. The company’s SWT Designer™ earned the first place Readers Choice award from Eclipse Magazin for Best Eclipse-based Commercial Software Solution in 2006. Instantiations is named as one the fastest-growing Oregon companies three years running and has been ranked among the top 100 companies influencing software development by SD Times two consecutive years.

Instantiations supports the Eclipse open source community, agile development, and the practice of continual build and testing.

Products
Instantiations provides Eclipse plug-ins for Java developers, including CodePro AnalytiX™ for quality improvement, static code analysis and JUnit testing; WindowBuilder Pro™ for GUI building using SWT, Swing or GWT; WindowTester Pro™ for automated testing of SWT or Swing GUIs; CodePro Profiler™ to identify performance problems; and RCP Developer™ to develop, test and package applications leveraging the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. In addition, the company offers VA Smalltalk, a VisualAge-compatible development environment for creating portable, multi-tier applications using object-oriented technology.