Aptana Studio is a robust, JavaScript-focused environment for building dynamic web applications. Aptana Studio 1.1 also includes an embedded version of Aptana's new Ajax Server, Jaxer.

Studio is Aptana's free, open source Ajax development environment. With over a million downloads, developers all over the world are discovering why Aptana Studio is the leading choice of web professionals everywhere.

Studio offers free plugins for PHP, Adobe AIR, Ruby on Rails, and even Apple iPhone development.

Of course Studio also includes rich support for development of Jaxer-based Ajax applications. In fact, as of Studio 1.1, Jaxer is fully integrated so that development of end-to-end Ajax applications requires no further installations or server setup.

Just create a new HTML document and you can build fully realized client/server applications rich with database access, network access, and much more.

Here are some key features of "Aptana Studio":

· JavaScript debugging.
· HTML/CSS/JS content assist.
· FTP support.
· Code assist profiles.
· Visual ScriptDoc.
· Ajax/JS library support.
· Integrated samples.
· Message center.

Requirements:

· 512 MB RAM.
· G5 or Intel-based machine.
· Java JRE 1.5.0 or later.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Cloaking preferences are now honored for contents in subdirectories when transferring files. (#300)
· The overwrite confirmation dialog could be turned off. (#294)
· When transferring to remote sites, the existing files and folders will maintain their permissions, while the new ones will be created with permissions defined in the preferences. (#301)
· The local files are showing the correct last modified time in the file transfer editor. (#299)
· For remote sites with non-default ports, their files could be opened in Studio. (#297)
· PDT no longer takes over the editors for opening CSS/JS files from Studio. (#295)