Google Donates Windowbuilder, Codepro To Eclipse

h00manist writes "Google is donating Windowbuilder Pro and Codepro Profiler to the Eclipse project. 'Google acquired the software when it bought Instantiations, relaunching the Java graphical user interface building tool Windowbuilder Pro shortly after. Now the outfit has decided to donate both Windowbuilder Pro and the code analysis tool Codepro to the open source Eclipse project. Although Google has announced its intention to donate the software, it needs go through a rigorous filtering process to ensure that no intellectual property rights will be breached. Once those formalities are dealt with, it is likely that both Windowbuilder Pro and Codepro will tip up in the Indigo release of Eclipse sometime in June 2011.'"

Comments

Does anybody still use Java?

[flyingfsck]

Isn't Java getting on in years and in need of being replaced by something more modern?

All created by a team focused on 1/100th of 1%

[Super Dave Osbourne]

Of the market by using Smalltalk. Its great to Instantiations still in business, and focused on Smalltalk. I find it very perplexing that Google bought the Java tools from them while leaving the Smalltalk business and dev folks behind that used Smalltalk to create these Java tools. When folks finally get to the real world of Smalltalk and its power, and Java is realized for its weaknesses maybe we'll all get back to the real work of creating real tools for real people with real problems to solve.