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From the website:

In early August, Google acquired Instantiations, a company known for its focus on Eclipse Java developer tools, including GWT Designer. We’re happy to announce today that we’re relaunching the following former Instantiations products under the Google name and making them available to all developers at no charge:

• GWT Designer
  Powerful Eclipse-based development tools that enable Java developers to quickly create Ajax user interfaces using Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
• CodePro AnalytiX
  Comprehensive automated software code quality and security analysis tools to improve software quality, reliability, and maintainability
• WindowBuilder Pro
  Java graphical user interface designer for Swing, SWT, GWT, RCP, and XWT UI frameworks
• WindowTester Pro
  Test GUI interactions within Java client rich applications for the SWT and Swing UI frameworks

I played a bit with CodePro. The tools look promising even through there were some glitches, namely:

1. The JUnit editor looks cool but the table with the current unit results often hangs.
2. It was more complicated than I liked to generate test cases
3. I couldn’t get the code coverage tool to work
4. The dependency works but didn’t play with it long enough to say for sure how useful it is
5. The code analysis shows a lot of numbers but the workflow is clumsy. For example, it says that something has a cyclomatic complexity of 16 but I couldn’t find out what and where.

Related Articles

• Google Relaunches Instantiations Developer Tools – Now Available for Free (googlecode.blogspot.com)

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