Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Aptana IDE - with iPhone support!

Just found out about this plugin for Eclipse for doing JavaScript, HTML (and iPhone development!):

Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused editor and development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.


Aptana: The Web IDE

You can also download a plugin for assisting with iPhone development:

Apple iPhone Support

The Apple iPhone Development Plugin (beta) enables the Aptana IDE to increase your iPhone development productivity.


Important Note...

I wanted to install Aptana over my existing eclipse installation (which you can), and I found that while installing it in this fashion it could generate exceptions if you installed it to the wrong directory.

I was unknowingly installing to the directory in which my MyEclipse plugin was installed, and it really didn't like that.

So after changing the installation directory to "c:\tools\aptana", the installation seems to have worked just fine. After installing the core IDE, then you can install the iPhone plugin directly from its start page.

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