How do I set up Aptana Studio (and why should I use it)?
Aptana provides a nice developer’s environment with a nice integration of the Ant build mechanism. It offers lists of available methods/properties for objects and you can search in all project files. It also has lots of other features, but at the end of the day it is just one possible choice for a Javascript developer’s environment. Use whatever you’re comfortable with but try to find out, if you can configure your tool to use Apache’s Ant. Concerning the configuration, do the following. First save all the source files (obtained via SVN or from unzipping the .xpi and the .jar file it contains) into a folder and remember (or write down) the path to this folder. This folder you will then need to import as a new project. In Aptana Studio, go to File->New->Project->”General Project” (NOT Ajax). Then untick the “use default location” option and point it to the folder. Choose a project name (e.g., “EagleEye Aptana Project”) and hit “Finish”. Now you just need to configure Apache’s Ant. Go to
