britg: Why Aptana is Quickly Becoming the Killer Stack
Ian Selby
· 1 year ago
RE: the jaxer integration with php, etc.
Jaxer is actually set up as a filter (in apache at least), not an interpreter like PHP, so it plays very nice with these languages. In my first week at Aptana I tested this myself and was quite happy with the results... if you want to see a very simple example, check out http://jxrgallery.aptanacloud.com. The file uploading and display is done via jaxer, but the image thumbnail / reflection processing is done via php scripts. Simple, but it works!
britg
· 1 year ago
Nice demo! I'm not familiar enough with apache innards to understand the filter vs. interpreter concept, that is interesting that the two can work together. I remember reading this in the jaxer discussions, but it didn't really sink in that a developer wouldn't use jaxer as the sole middleware in their app. Very cool
Brad B.
· 1 year ago
Not one mention of Eclipse?
britg
· 1 year ago
The fact that they built it ontop of eclipse is great, especially with the plugin architecture. I thought about putting in something about that, but decided to lean more towards the more innovative aspects of the IDE - like cloud integration, jaxer server, etc.
philip
· 1 year ago
I like the Javascript stack of Jaxer but I want to see more of how I can integrate that with my existing large server side libraries in PHP and Java.
britg
· 1 year ago
Yeah, I agree - that's the biggest hurdle that Jaxer has in front of it. How does it fit in with all the legacy code that most people have.
It really does take a brave soul to base an entire application on such a new technology.
Aptana Management
· 1 year ago
Good Article. Please tell me where I can send the check.
britg
· 1 year ago
haha, thanks "Aptana Management"
Anthony Damasco
· 1 year ago
What about Eclipse?
Andrija
· 1 year ago
"the Aptana IDE only just recently added a word wrap feature".
I just downloaded the latest version, still RC, but there is no word wrap. Do you know how to turn on word wrap function in Aptana?
All Comments
Jaxer is actually set up as a filter (in apache at least), not an interpreter like PHP, so it plays very nice with these languages. In my first week at Aptana I tested this myself and was quite happy with the results... if you want to see a very simple example, check out http://jxrgallery.aptanacloud.com. The file uploading and display is done via jaxer, but the image thumbnail / reflection processing is done via php scripts. Simple, but it works!
filter vs. interpreter concept, that is interesting that the two can work
together. I remember reading this in the jaxer discussions, but it didn't
really sink in that a developer wouldn't use jaxer as the sole middleware in
their app. Very cool
plugin architecture. I thought about putting in something about that, but
decided to lean more towards the more innovative aspects of the IDE - like
cloud integration, jaxer server, etc.
How does it fit in with all the legacy code that most people have.
It really does take a brave soul to base an entire application on such a new
technology.
I just downloaded the latest version, still RC, but there is no word wrap. Do you know how to turn on word wrap function in Aptana?
http://support.aptana.com/asap/browse/STU-534?f...
He explains how to turn on wordwrap.
It works in Aptana Studio, build: 1.2.0.017963, and I'm not using the pro version.
Best Regards
Andrija