Aptana Impressions

I recently downloaded Aptana Studio 1.1 Community Edition and have been using it mostly for my Javascript/ColdFusion development.

• Intellisense for ExtJS by using com.extjs.ext.2.0_1.0.0.00000.jar from the ExtJS blog. Umm, I am hoping someday OpenLayers can provide a similar jar file to provide code assist.
• I like the fact that it could clearly display an outline of my javascript objects but sometimes not for all.

But one of the major problems I encountered was the startup. Sometimes, for some unknown reason, Aptana cannot start using the executable it provided during the install. However, I was able to weed that problem out by instead launching it from startup.jar. All of these is documented from Aptana’s JIRA ticket.

1. Downloaded and install Aptana

2. Watched Aptana TV Overview

3. Installed cfeclipse http://www.cfeclipse.org/update

4. Installed viPlugin http://satokar.com/ (Note that the viPlugin would not work with files = *.html)

5. Added the extjs2.0 code assist