Faculty spotlight: Clayberg and Rubel

Two of EclipseWorld's most popular instructors are Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel. Want to know more about them?

Eric Clayberg is a software technologist, product developer, entrepreneur and manager with Instantiations. He has more than 18 years of commercial software development experience, including 11 years of experience with Java and eight years with Eclipse. Mr. Clayberg is the primary author and architect of more than a dozen commercial Java and Smalltalk add-on products, including WindowBuilder Pro, CodePro and the award-winning VA Assist Enterprise product lines.

Mr. Clayberg holds a B.S. degree from M.I.T and an M.B.A. from Harvard, and has co-founded two successful software companies. He is co-author of the book “Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plugins,” part of the Addison-Wesley Eclipse series.

Dan Rubel is an entrepreneur and an expert in the design and application of object-oriented technologies with more than 15 years of commercial software development experience, including 10 years of experience with Java and six years with Eclipse. He’s the primary architect and product manager at Instantiations for RCP Developer, WindowTester and RCP Packager, and has played key design and leadership roles in other commercial products such as WindowBuilder Pro, VA Assist and CodePro Studio.

Mr. Rubel specializes in Eclipse product development, including code analysis and RCP construction tools, and is co-author of “Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plugins.”

This is one of the sessions that they'll be teaching:

Tuesday, Oct. 28, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
W-2 Building Commercial-Quality Eclipse Plugins
By Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel

The best way to extend the power of Eclipse-based tools is by building plugins—and this workshop provides the best education from the top experts: the guys who literally wrote the book on the subject.

In addition to introducing the basics of plugin development, the instructors will show you how to add the sophistication and “polish” that your end users demand. In this workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of plugin development, with specific solutions for the challenges participants will most likely encounter. Session content is based on the newly released third edition of the best-selling book co-authored by Clayberg and Rubel, “Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plugins,” and is split between lecture and hands-on lab work. The workshop has been updated to encompass the Eclipse 3.4 “Ganymede” platform! (Please bring a laptop with Eclipse installed.)