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Aptana Studio (Community Edition)
Version
1.1Date Added
(to site)March 14th, 2008Author
Aptana, Inc.License
GNU General Public License (GPL) (?)Description
Aptana Studio’s community edition is the free, open source Web development environment optimized for use with Ajax libraries and scripting languages like JavaScript, Ruby and PHP. Aptana Studio is considered by many devleopers the best-in-class authoring environment for today’s more rich and interactive Web pages and Ajax applications.
The free version includes the core pieces of Aptana Studio’s editing, debugging, synchronization, and project management capabilities, including pieces for scripting, customizing and extending Aptana Studio.
There is also support for Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone, PHP, and Ruby on Rails development, which comes via additional development plugins - also free.
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I downloaded and installed both Aptana Studio (dual licensed GPL/Aptana Public License) and Aptana Jaxer (GPL), their custom server which includes an Apache 2.2 webserver, the Jaxer Framework, SQLite3 support, MySQL support, is open-source and standards compliant, and extensive Ajax support.
Both Studio and Jaxer were easy to get installed and configured on both Windows XP and Linux (CentOS 5 is the platform I tested), even if using an external MySQL server.
Setting up simple web applications that store data via the internal SQLite3 API couldn’t be easier. Creating applications that require custom connections to an external database is only slightly more work.
Aptana Studio itself is a very feature rich IDE, with excellent support for a wide range of development tasks or styles.
Studio comes with an included Jaxer server for script previewing in any browser. The Jaxer server is based on the Mozilla engine, and Studio has a built in Firefox console, for easier troubleshooting.
Studio offers good support for ftp and synchronizing files between the development environment and your server. The synchronization tool allows you to match a local directory to an ftp connection, and then updating in either direction, or both, is simple.
Studio has nice support for plugins, with free plugins available for PHP, Ruby on Rails, and iPhone development.
The code completion is great, a notch above what I commonly see in IDEs.
Studio also bundles a large number of popular Ajax and Javascript libraries for easy inclusion in projects.
More of the features can be found here:
http://www.aptana.com/node/59
The Aptana website includes a number of tutorials, screencasts, a documentation wiki, and a forum.
My overall impression, with each new feature I discover, is that this is a soundly realized application. Everything works well. In my opinion, the real strength is seen when combining Studio and Jaxer.
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Nice review @Matthew Callier, your review make me to press on download button and try the program. I don’t know what to say to others, this program is prefect, it’s open source, and its free, I still can’t believe in it.
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