From Aptana Development

Welcome to the Aptana Developer Page!

Quick Links

• ScriptDoc XML Reference (JavaScript code assist)
• ScriptDoc XSD (JavaScript code assist)
  • Use http://www.xmlme.com/Validator.aspx for quick online validation
• Metadata XML Reference (HTML/CSS code assist)
• Adding support for a new Ajax library

Accessing the Aptana Source

GitHub Repositorys

Aptana has moved towards utilizing Github for repository management. You can checkout our GitHub Home Page here. Our home is to increase community support and development involvement.

Aptana Studio

There are a number of repositories that you might find helpful to begin contributing to Aptana Studio

• Studio: http://github.com/aptana/studio (our umbrella feature source)
• Ide_core: http://github.com/aptana/ide_core ( holds the Aptana Studio Core plugins and features)
• XULrunner: http://github.com/aptana/xulrunner

RadRails

• RadRails: http://github.com/aptana/radrails ( the RadRails plugin source and standalone customizations)
• RDT: http://github.com/aptana/rdt

AJAX Libraries

• AJAX Libraries: http://github.com/aptana/frameworks

Connecting to source control

• Getting started with Subversion
• Getting started with GIT
• Connecting to Source Control
• Building the Aptana Studio source code
• Subversion tips and tricks

Guidelines (To Be Updated)

• Submitting a Patch
• Debugging the build process
• Adding a plugin to the build process
• Source Code Conventions
• Trac Ticket Guidelines

Developing for Aptana

Topics on extending the existing Aptana code base. If you'd like to see a topic added, please add it to the list here, and we'll do our best to fill it in.

• Development Guidelines
• Java Coding Standard
• OSS License Compatibility
• Eclipse tips and tricks
• Adding context-sensitive Help to a plugin
• Setting a run-time preference manually
• Embedding a JAR into a plugin
• Adding a new plugin to the product
• Creating a new Aptana Editor
  • Creating a plugin
  • Creating an Editor extension
  • Creating a file wizard
  • Creating file wizard extensions
  • Defining file wizard content
  • Creating an Aptana Editor class
  • Lexing your language
  • Colorizing your language
  • Adding parser for your language
  • Adding folding support
  • Adding custom validator
  • Adding custom pair finder
  • Contributing to context toolbar
• Creating a Virtual File Manager
• Adding new browser support
• Utilizing custom browser URLs
• Extension Points
• Editor Philosophy
• Internal HTTP servers

Testing

Before Basic acceptance tests are performed, the complete suite of unit tests should be run.

• Smoke Tests
  • Studio Smoke Tests
  • Jaxer Smoke Tests
• Acceptance Tests
  • Writing Good Acceptance Tests
  • IDE Core Basic Acceptance Tests
  • PHP Basic Acceptance Tests
  • Ruby Basic Acceptance Tests
  • iPhone Basic Acceptance Tests
  • AIR Basic Acceptance Tests
• Aptana Cloud Tests
  • Deployment Test Cases
  • Site Management Test Cases
  • Profile Test Cases

Reference

Items useful as references when developing Aptana code or web sites

• ScriptDoc XML Reference (JavaScript code assist)
• Metadata XML Reference (HTML/CSS code assist)
• Aptana Debugger Protocol
• Corporate Colors

Extending Editor Views

• Contributing to the Samples view
• Contributing to the Snippets view

Adding support for a new Ajax library

• Adding a new project wizard
• Adding Code Assist
• Adding Samples
• Adding Snippets
• Adding Views

Developing for Aptana Rails

Topics on extending the existing Rails code base. If you'd like to see a topic added, please add it to the list here, and we'll do our best to fill it in.

• Extending hovers or pop-ups for the Ruby Editor

Distributing Aptana

Topics on creating packagers for the Aptana IDE

• Creating a Windows Aptana IDE installer
• Creating a OS X Aptana IDE installer
• Creating a Debian Aptana IDE package

Code Samples

These are useful snippets of code we either ran across or developed while working on Aptana. If you have other snippets, please add them here. Remember to add attribution headers to the code comments if you'd like to to be acknowledged.

• Abstract JavaFileEditorInput changes between Eclipse 3.1 and Eclipse 3.2
• Abstract NonExistingFileEditorInput changes between Eclipse 3.1 and Eclipse 3.2
• Determining the calling method in Java
• Setting the preferences for a plugin programmatically

Standards Work

Documents and other items designed for future standards body submissions.

• SUpdate Microformat

Planning

• Aptana IDE Core Features

Figured it out the Hard Way

Tips and tricks that only were discovered through trial and error, and didn't show up in any Google searches we did. Putting them here in case someone else finds them useful

• Trac
  • 'module' object has no attribute 'working_set'
• Eclipse RCP
  • Automatic update dialog keeps appearing, fails with ClassCastException
  • Creating a feature install handler
  • Fragmenting an Eclipse plugin to expose internal classes
  • Debugging SiteOptimizer
• CruiseControl
  • Setting up CruiseControl on Windows Server 2003
• Windows
  • Special Windows Folder Guids