Aptana moves to the server side

Posted At : January 23, 2008 4:33 AM | Posted By : Mark Drew
Related Categories: webdev, eclipse, ajax, apple

Those clever folks at Aptana famous for their IDE and Eclipse plugins for JavaScript/Ajax, HTML and CSS have released Jaxer, The Ajax Server:

...Jaxer changes all that. Jaxer is the world's first true Ajax server. HTML, JavaScript, and CSS are native to Jaxer, as are XMLHttpRequests, JSON, DOM scripting, etc. And as a server it offers access to databases, files, and networking, as well as logging, process management, scalability, security, integration APIs, and extensibility

You can get it as part of the IDE or download the standalone server, for Windows, Mac and Linux.

I dont find this surprising really, since Paul Colton, the CEO and founder is the man behind JRun!

Awesome stuff, and I hope to get some examples up to show you soon!

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Anuj Gakhar's Gravatar thats cool! great stuff. however, in their FAQ, there is no mention of Coldfusion. But thats not a big worry. thanks for the information.
# Posted By Anuj Gakhar | 1/23/08 6:54 AM
Mark Drew's Gravatar I didnt mention anything about coldfusion? Its just an interesting AJAX product for JavaScripters.
# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/23/08 7:55 AM
barry.b's Gravatar gimmee a break!

bluring the lines between client and server ?

script runat="server" ...?

it's ASP.NET all over again.

what's next? __VIEWSTATE?
# Posted By barry.b | 1/23/08 8:09 AM
Jim Priest's Gravatar I think this looks really cool... If anything it looks like a nice addition to use alongside something else server side (CF/PHP, etc). I could see this being great for form validation - I've got a huge form now where I have a ton of jQuery stuff coded up and am having to re-write a lot of that server side in CF. Using Jaxer it looks like I could leverage the jQuery code on both ends - sweet!
# Posted By Jim Priest | 1/23/08 8:45 AM
Anuj Gakhar's Gravatar mark, I know you didnt mention CF , I was just trying to find CF in their FAQ....:) It is definitely a great AJAX tool....
# Posted By Anuj Gakhar | 1/23/08 8:49 AM
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