Instantiations donates WindowBuilder Pro licence to Opereffa project

For those who have not heard about them, Instantiations is a software company which builds high quality development tools. Especially if you are using Eclipse for Java development, and you have to build user interfaces, their WindowBuilder Pro tool is quite likely the best tool you can buy. Also if you are developing Eclipse plugins with views and editors, you can earn yourself a lot of time using WindowBuilder Pro, since its SWT support lets you create Eclipse views much faster than hand crafting them.

I have lots of tooling to develop in Eclipse, in the context of Opereffa, and this is where Instantiations’ policy of donating licenses  to open source projects comes in really handy.  We now have a donated license for WindowBuilder pro, and the way it works allows us to release source code without any dependencies to any proprietary resources. It feels really good to have access to first class tools for critical tasks, and you don’t experience this feeling all the time if you are working in the open source domain. Thanks to Instantiations for their kind help to our research project.