After two years of development, Aptana has released version 1.0 of Aptana Studio, a cross-platform, Eclipse-based IDE for AJAX and HTML development. Aptana Studio 1.0 is dual-licensed under the GPL3 and the Aptana Public licenses and is available for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. Aptana offers a free Community Edition and a Professional version with an introductory price of $99.
Both versions now provide new project-management features, integrated FTP, improved editors for JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, a Visual ScriptDoc document explorer, and more good stuff. Aptana Studio provides Intellisence-style code assist support for AJAX JavaScript libraries, and it includes samples from several popular frameworks, including Adobe Spry, Ext 1.1, MochKit, Aflax, and Scriptaculous. The IDE is based on Eclipse, so it is fully extensible with many third party plug-ins available. Aptana has several of its own plug-in projects in the works, including an iPhone emulation tool and an Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) plug-in for Flash and AJAX development, as well as support for PHP and Rails development. The IDE also includes many productivity macros for JavaScript and HTML coding, an outline browser, snippets library, and still more.
Aptana Studio 1.0 Professional includes additional features, such as a JSON editor, debug support for Internet Explorer, and FTPS and SFTP support. It also includes one year of priority tech support. A 30-day trial is available for Professional, which automatically reverts to Community Edition if you don't opt in. For more information visit www.aptana.com/.
