Last month, Google acquired Instantiations, a maker of Java programming tools, for an undisclosed sum. This month, Google is offering Instantiations' products for free.

Instantiations' Swing Designer is a bidirectional Java GUI designer built as an Eclipse plug-in. It's part of the WindowBuilder Pro family (along with SWT Designer and GWT Designer).

The two donated projects are WindowBuilder, which is a Java GUI Designer for Eclipse, and CodePro Profiler, a tool that developers can use to discover memory leaks and other performance issues.

CodeGear has teamed up with Instantiations, a provider of software products, services and technologies for Eclipse, Java and Smalltalk. The companies plan to add Instantiations' Swing Designer visual ...

Instantiations plans to offer both an SWT and a SWING version of its GUI building product in the near future. "It is our plan to offer Java developers powerful GUI building tools for both environments ...