Eric Clayberg

ERIC CLAYBERG is Senior VP for Product Development for Instantiations, an Advanced IBM Business Partner and leading developer of commercial add-ons for Eclipse, IBM VisualAge, and IBM WebSphere. A seasoned technologist, developer, entrepreneur, and manager, he has seven years' experience with Java and four years' experience with Eclipse.

DAN RUBEL, Instantations' CTO, is an entrepreneur and expert in object-oriented design and development. His 15+ years' experience includes eight years working with Java and four years with Eclipse. He has served as primary architect and product manager for several successful commercial products.

Dan Rubel

About the Authors

Eric Clayberg is Senior Vice President for Product Development for Instantiations, Inc. Eric is a seasoned software technologist, product developer, entrepreneur, and manager with more than 15 years of commercial software development experience, including seven years of experience with Java and four years with Eclipse. He is the primary author and architect of more than a dozen commercial Java and Smalltalk add-on products, including the popular WindowBuilder Pro, CodePro Studio, and the award-winning VA Assist Enterprise product lines. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and has co-founded two successful software companies.

Dan Rubel is Chief Technology Officer for Instantiations, Inc. He is an entrepreneur and an expert in the design and application of OO technologies with more than 15 years of commercial software development experience, including eight years of experience with Java and four years with Eclipse. He is the primary architect and product manager for several successful commercial products, including JFactor, jKit/GO, and jKit/Grid, and has played key design and leadership roles in other commercial products such as Window-Builder Pro, VA Assist, and CodePro Studio. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Bucknell and has co-founded a successful company.

Instantiations is an Advanced IBM Business Partner and developer of many commercial add-ons for Eclipse and IBM’s VisualAge and WebSphere product lines. Instantiations is a member of the Eclipse Foundation and a contributor to the Eclipse open source effort with responsibility for the Eclipse Collaboration Tools project known as Koi and joint responsibility for the Eclipse Visual Editor project.