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Erich Gamma is author number one of the [[Gang of Four]] who wrote the influential computer science textbook Design Patterns. 

Not so recent projects:
*JHotDraw - a Java flavor of HotDraw 
*Taligent's incremental C++ development environment. 
*ET++ (EtPlusPlus) - a comprehensive class library and application framework for C++. 

He co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework with Kent Beck and pairs as often as possible with Kent Beck to work on JavaUnit. 

Erich Gamma is the Technical Director of the Software Technology Center of ObjectTechnologyInternational (OTI) in Zurich.

He led the design of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools (JDT).

Erich is currently working on the IBM Rational Jazz project.

Recent projects:
*Eclipse IDE - IBM's new platform for development tools 
**JFace - the Eclipse UI Framework 
**Eclipse Java Tooling 
*IBM VisualAge MicroEdition? IDE 
*ULC - Ultra Light Client an infrastructure for thin Java clients. 

ACM's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) awarded the 2005 Programming Languages Achievement Award to Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (the [[Gang of Four]]) for their book 'Design Patterns'.

==Links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma
*http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ErichGamma
*http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?HistoryOfPatterns

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