WindowBuilder Product Support

Instantiations wants to help you build your GUIs quickly and get the most from our products. Our technical support team are experts on our products, and most are developers themselves.
 
We understand that sometimes time is of the essence, or you just need more guidance than our manuals and examples provide. We have worked hard to put together a series of support plans to help you as promptly and as thoroughly as you need.

For support details, see the sections of this page:

 

 

What support is included with the product?

Ninety days of upgrade, maintenance and technical support, starting from the date of purchase, are included with the purchase of WindowBuilder Pro, SWT Designer, Swing Designer or the GWT Designer perpetual license. After that, you may choose to purchase annual support.

GWT Designer is also available as an annual subscription, which includes support until the subscription's expiration.

What happens if my Support period lapses? »

 

How to reach us

E-mail: wb-support@instantiations.com

Sales: sales@instantiations.com

For Annual Subscriptions or Consulting Services please call 800-808-3737 -or- 503-598-4900
(8am to 4:30pm PST, Mon - Fri).

When purchasing annual support, the number of support subscriptions must match the number of licenses purchased (e.g., if you buy 10 licenses, you may buy 10 support subscriptions or none at all). Support offerings and pricing are subject to change.

Requesting Technical Support

Technical support is provided via telephone, newsgroup and email to customers with active support. If you have active support, your support requests will be treated with the highest priority. The quickest mechanism for requesting support is to use the Automatic Error Reporting system included within the product. Just click the Contact Support button and you are on your way.

Customers with active support can generally expect responses within 24 hours (48 hours for some questions of a more complex or multi-part nature). Support resources are always allocated preferentially to customers with active support.

If you are unable to use the Automatic Error Reporting system, please include our support form with the product name, version and platform with any email or newsgroup support requests. In addition, please be sure to provide the details on your operating system and/or development environment. Your questions should be concise and restricted to a single incident or request. If you have any code which may be relevant to the problem please include it. Example code that illustrates the problem is especially welcome (and often leads to a quicker resolution) as are debug logs generated in the event of a system exception.

What if I think I've found a bug?

Instantiations appreciates the help of our users in identifying bugs in our software. Bugs are an inconvenience to all of us, but unfortunately the reality of software development. We accept bug reports, using the form below, via email, fax or phone. If an exception occurs within the product, you may also use the automatic error reporting option.

Support Form

Please submit all support requests with the following information along with a description of the problem and your expectations, steps to reproduce the problem, detailed error messages, your Eclipse ".log" file (found in your <workspace>/.metadata directory), and code samples as appropriate. Please include any other technical information that you think might be helpful to us in our efforts to resolve the problem. Send support requests to
wb-support@instantiations.com.

Priorities are:

  • Low: minor impact, resolution desired but not required
  • Standard: resolution needed, but can continue working project
  • High: work substantially impaired, deadline is near, etc.
  • Critical: system down, deadline imminent, etc.

Format of the support form:

  • Product name:
  • Version:
  • Serial #: (only via email - do not post on forum)
  • OS Name/Version:
  • Priority: Low/Standard/High/Critical
  • Eclipse Log Attached: Yes/No