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Aptana, Inc. is a company that makes
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development tools for use with a variety of
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s (such as
JavaScript JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior. Web browsers have ...
,
Ruby Ruby is a pinkish-red-to-blood-red-colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum ( aluminium oxide). Ruby is one of the most popular traditional jewelry gems and is very durable. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sapph ...
,
PHP PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by the PHP Group. ...
, and
Python Python may refer to: Snakes * Pythonidae, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia ** ''Python'' (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia * Python (mythology), a mythical serpent Computing * Python (prog ...
). Aptana's main products include ''Aptana Studio'', ''Aptana Cloud'', and ''Aptana Jaxer''.


Aptana Studio

''Aptana Studio'' is a
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integrated development environment An integrated development environment (IDE) is a Application software, software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source-code editor, build automation tools, an ...
(IDE) for building web applications. Based on
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, it supports JavaScript,
HTML Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets ( ...
,
Document Object Model The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cros s-platform and language-independent API that treats an HTML or XML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document. The DOM represents a document with ...
(DOM), and Cascading Style Sheets ( CSS) with code-
autocomplete Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an application software, application predicts the rest of a word a user is typing. In Android (operating system), Android and iOS smartphones, this is called predictive text. In graphical us ...
, outlining, JavaScript debugging, error and warning notifications and integrated documentation. Additional plugins allow Aptana Studio to support
Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails (simplified as Rails) is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pa ...
, PHP, Python, Perl, Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone and Nokia WRT (Web Runtime). Aptana Studio is available as a standalone on
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,
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, and
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, or as a plug-in for Eclipse.


Language & platform support


PHP

Aptana Studio 3 provides the following support for PHP application development: * Syntax Coloring according to the selected theme in the preferences; * Code Assist; * Syntax error annotations; * Auto indentation and Code Formatting; * Hyper-linking to classes, functions and variables by hovering over elements and pressing the Ctrl key; * PHPDoc popups when hovering over items that have attached documentation; * Read and write Occurrences Markers when clicking on specific PHP elements. In the 2.0 version, Aptana did not provide its own PHP plugin, but transferred development efforts to the PDT project. Aptana version 1.5 provided support for developing PHP applications via the add-on PHP plugin. This included: * Built-in PHP server for previewing within Aptana Studio, * Full code assist, code outlining and code formatting, * Integrated PHP debugger, * Built in Smarty, * Type hierarchy view, * Go to declaration, * Integrated PHP manual (online or local).


Ruby on Rails

Aptana Studio supports Ruby on Rails development using RadRails, an open source plugin for the Ruby on Rails framework. This includes: * Integrated Ruby on Rails shell console, * Default-install and configuration of the Ruby interpreter, database and debugger, *
code completion Code completion is an autocompletion feature in many integrated development environments (IDEs) that speeds up the process of coding applications by fixing common mistakes and suggesting lines of code. This usually happens through popups while typ ...
with type inferencing, * Code Assist for Ruby, CSS, JavaScript and HTML inside RHTML files, * Type hierarchy view, * Go to declaration, * Call hierarchy, * Full implementation of RDT (Eclipse's Ruby Development Tools project).


Python

Aptana Studio provides support for
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in the form of the PyDev plugin. This provides the following advantages: * Color
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; * Code completion; * Code outlining; * Debugging * Refactoring tools * Interactive console * Unittest integration * Integrated support for the
CPython CPython is the reference implementation of the Python programming language. Written in C and Python, CPython is the default and most widely used implementation of the Python language. CPython can be defined as both an interpreter and a comp ...
,
Jython Jython is an implementation of the Python (programming language), Python programming language designed to run on the Java (programming language), Java platform. It was known as JPython until 1999. Overview Jython programs can import and use any ...
and
IronPython IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language targeting the .NET and Mono frameworks. The project is currently maintained by a group of volunteers at GitHub. It is free and open-source software, and can be implemented with P ...
interpreters. Aptana announced that their previously commercial Pydev Extensions are now open sourced.


Adobe AIR

Aptana IDE provides considerable support for
Adobe AIR Adobe AIR (also known as Adobe Integrated Runtime and codenamed Apollo) is a cross-platform runtime system currently developed by Harman International, in collaboration with Adobe Inc., for building desktop applications and mobile application ...
.


Nokia Web Runtime

The Nokia Web Runtime provides support for developing rich mobile apps for Nokia S60 series phones. This includes over 30 models and tens of millions of units in use around the world. The Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio provides features that enable the creation, editing, testing and deployment of WRT widgets from within Aptana Studio. WRT widgets are small, task-focused web applications that are installed and run in the same way as other S60 applications. WRT widgets allow websites or web services to be optimised for use on S60 devices. Because they are easy to develop and use, WRT widgets are ideal for driving traffic to a website from S60 devices.


Features


JavaScript Library Support

Aptana Studio comes with the following JavaScript libraries, but more can be added or updated if desired. * Adobe Spry *
Ext JS Ext JS is a JavaScript application framework for building interactive cross-platform web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting. It can be used as a simple component framework (for example, to create dynamic grids on ...
* Aflax * Rico *
Prototype A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and Software prototyping, software programming. A prototype ...
* Mochikit *
YUI Library The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) is a discontinued open-source JavaScript library for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML, and DOM scripting. YUI includes several cores CSS resources. It is ava ...
* Mootools *
Dojo toolkit Dojo Toolkit (stylized as dōjō toolkit) is an open-source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross-platform, JavaScript/ Ajax-based applications and web sites. It was ...
* jQuery *
Script.aculo.us The Prototype JavaScript Framework is a JavaScript framework created by Sam Stephenson in February 2005 as part of Ajax support in Ruby on Rails. It is implemented as a single file of JavaScript code, usually named prototype.js. Prototype is di ...


Code Assist

Code Assist is similar to completing code statements, by presenting a pop-up with either: * the supported arguments for the function call being coded; * the supported properties and methods on the desired object. This applies both to built-in functions/methods and to those already coded — but the latter use requires documenting such functions/methods with ScriptDoc, a documentation dialect similar to that used by
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.


Browser support

The Code Assist feature includes information on browser support for JavaScript methods/properties,
HTML element An HTML element is a type of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) document component, one of several types of HTML nodes (there are also text nodes, comment nodes and others). The first used version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 199 ...
s and CSS properties.


FTP/SFTP

Support for uploading, downloading and synchronization using
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and SFTP.


Debugger

Both Pro and Community editions support integrated JavaScript
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for Firefox. Internet Explorer is supported only in the Pro Edition.


System requirements

*Windows – 512 MB RAM, Pentium 4-level processor *Mac OS X – 512 MB RAM, PowerPC G4/G5, Intel or Mac OS X 10.4+ *Linux – 512 MB RAM, Pentium 4-level processor


Editions

Aptana Studio is available as an open source Community Edition. The previously available features in the paid-for Pro Edition were merged into the Community Edition. All of the features in Pro are now part of the standard Community Edition of Studio, thus Aptana ceased to exist as a multiple edition IDE.


License

Aptana uses a "dual licensing" model. Under this model, users may choose to use the Aptana IDE under the free software/open source
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(commonly known as the "GPL") or under th
Aptana Public License
(known as the "APL"). With the GPL license, the Aptana IDE is available free of charge, as long as the redistribution (if any) of the Aptana IDE adheres to the terms of the GPL license. Users may download the software for free and modify, integrate and distribute it. Aptana also offers the simplified APL license for organizations that don't need to redistribute Aptana Studio or its derivatives outside of the company.


License history

*When launched in 2006, Aptana was released under the
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1.0. They were using the EPL until milestone 8. The first few builds of milestone 9 were licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 until nightly build 16120. *One nightly build of milestone 9 was licensed under the GNU General Public License 3.0 (build 16204) *Builds after 16204 have been licensed as
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with redistribution restrictions licensed under th
Aptana Public License, v1.0
*On September 21, 2007, Aptana announced they would be using a dual license: GPL V3 and the freeware APL.


Company

Aptana is currently led by Paul Colton, Founder and CEO, Uri Sarid, CTO/VP, Engineering and Kevin Hakman, Director of Evangelism. The staff headcount surpassed 25 after September 1, 2008. Aptana is an active participant in the OpenAjax Alliance, with Hakman serving as director of the IDE Working Group. Aptana was acquired by Appcelerator, Inc. on January 7, 2011. Employees of Aptana were absorbed to the Mountain View campus of Appcelerator and work is scheduled to continue on the release of Aptana 3.0. Appcelerator in their webcast made users aware of their intention to integrate their mobile application framework with Aptana Studio, with a planned beta within Q1 2011. Emphasis on visual workflow was indicated for both of the products and continued support will continue for existing Aptana products. Appcelerator put Jaxer on
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.


Other products


Aptana Jaxer

Aptana Jaxer, made obsolete by Node.js, is an
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Ajax Ajax may refer to: Greek mythology and tragedy * Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea * Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris * Ajax (play), ''Ajax'' (play), by the an ...
web server A web server is computer software and underlying Computer hardware, hardware that accepts requests via Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS. A user agent, co ...
for building rich web pages and applications using a unified Ajax model wherein both client-side and server-side code can be written in JavaScript. Jaxer's server-side engine is based on Mozilla
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, the same browser engine that is used in
Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements curr ...
. The Mozilla engine allows Jaxer to provide a server-side DOM in which a page may be manipulated during server-side processing using the techniques familiar to client-side programmers. Jaxer's server-side JavaScript application programming interfaces (
API An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how to build ...
s) enable database access, file system access, network communications, user sessions and other functions typical of web application servers. Jaxer also provides for access to Java objects via the open source Direct Web Remoting project. Jaxer is now on
GitHub GitHub () is a Proprietary software, proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug trackin ...
. Aptana Jaxer provides a page-processing environment based on the Mozilla engine. This provides a
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-based DOM and
SpiderMonkey SpiderMonkey is an open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine by the Mozilla Foundation. The engine powers the Firefox Web browser and has used multiple generations of JavaScript just-in-time (JIT) compilers, including TraceMonkey, Jäg ...
JavaScript engine to allow pages to be rendered and manipulated on the server before being sent to the browser. Jaxer also provides an Ajax model for performing asynchronous requests to the server. Its client and server APIs allow such requests to be made by simply calling server-side JavaScript functions from the client. Behind the scenes, Jaxer provides the logic required to manage the request and retrieve the response from the server. It is useful for
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. Jaxer is not a standalone web server, but works with another server such as
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,
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or Tomcat. Jaxer provides server-side DOM and API processing for pages served by the web server before delivering the results to the browser. Jaxer may be integrated into Aptana Studio via an optional plugin. It is open source (
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(GPL)) and available for
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,
macOS macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. With ...
,
Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...
, and
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. As of November 2009 Aptana has significantly scaled back development and support of Jaxer. An Aptana representative noted that "there hasn't been sufficient adoption to make it a money earning proposition." (Archived by
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at )


Aptana Cloud Connect

Aptana Cloud Connect is Aptana's web hosting and application management service. Cloud Connect provides the infrastructure required to host applications developed using technologies supported by Aptana Studio and is primarily based on
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, with support for general web/Ajax, PHP, Ruby on Rails and Jaxer. Cloud Connect also supports Java-based web applications, which may be deployed and managed using the Cloud service. All applications hosted on Cloud Connect may be developed offline, deployed and managed directly using the Cloud management features included in Aptana Studio. The Cloud Connect service also provides team management, hosted source control (using
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), remote editing/preview and application synchronization between local, staging and production environments.


See also

*
List of Eclipse-based software The Eclipse (software), Eclipse IDE platform can be extended by adding different plug-in (computing), plug-ins. Notable examples include: * Acceleo, an open source code generator that uses Eclipse Modeling Framework, EMF-based models to generate ...
*
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*
NetBeans NetBeans is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java (programming language), Java. NetBeans allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called ''modules''. NetBeans runs on Microsoft Windows, Windows, ...


References


External links


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