Aptana

Aptana running on Windows XP, showcasing its coding assistance features
Maintainer:	???
Latest release:	0.31 Beta / July 22, 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	HTML editor
License:	EPL v1.0
Website:	www.aptana.com

Aptana is a cross-platform, free and (soon) open source JavaScript-focused Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building dynamic web applications. It includes coding assistance features for JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, an outliner of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure, error and warning notification and the possibility to customize and extend the UI. In software engineering, software maintenance is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... An HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is a license for free software. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... ... JavaScript is the name of Netscape Communications Corporations implementation of ECMAScript, a scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ... An integrated development environment (IDE), also known as integrated design environment and integrated debugging environment, is a type of computer software that assists computer programmers to develop software. ... An example of HTML code with syntax highlighting and line numbers In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information. ... CSS may refer to: In computing: Calderbank-Shor-Steane codes, class of quantum error correction codes Cascading Style Sheets, used to format SGML and XML-based documents Closed source software Content-scrambling system, an encryption algorithm in DVDs Core System Software Cross site scripting Curvature Scale Space, a method of... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ...

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It is also possible to configure Aptana do edit PHP, ASP or other not (yet) supported file types^[1] PHP is an open-source, reflective programming language. ... Asp is an archaic term for a number of species of poisonous snake that live in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. ...

Features

These are the features offered by Aptana as of the 0.31 Beta version.

Code Assist

Code Assist is the name of Aptana's feature of completing code statements, by presenting a pop-up with either:

• the supported arguments for the function call begin coded;
• the supported properties and methods on the desired object.

This applies both to built-in functions/methods and to those already coded by the programmer — but the latter use requires documenting such functions/methods with ScriptDoc^[2], a documentation dialect similar to that used by Javadoc.^[3] Javadoc is a computer software tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation into HTML format from Java source code. ...

Browser support

The aforementioned Code Assist feature includes information on browser support for JavaScript methods/properties, HTML elements and CSS properties.^[4] In computing, an HTML element indicates structure in an HTML document. ...

Outliner

The Outliner, or Outline View, gives the programmer a structured, hierarchical view of the JavaScript, HTML, or CSS file being edited.^[5]

Notes

1. ^ Using Aptana with PHP, ASP, and other non-HTML files
2. ^ About Code Assist
3. ^ Documenting your code using ScriptDoc
4. ^ Browser Support screencast
5. ^ Outline View screencast

External links

• Aptana - official site
• Aptana with Ubuntu - information on how to get Aptana running on Ubuntu (linux)