Aptana Studio + CMSMS - Is it possible?

[bbonora]

I just downloaded and installed a copy of Aptana Studio 2.0.3 on my computer. In the past, depending on what OS I'm using, I have installed LAMP, WAMP, or XAMPP for my testing server. All of these solution work well but I thought I would try out a more advanced IDE and was wondering if it was possible to use Aptana or Eclipse (Aptana is essentially Eclipse) to achieve all of my development and testing needs using one program. Is this possible or even worth it. Does anybody have any experience setting this up? If so I would love to hear how you did it.

[antosha]

I planning to do this too.
Althought I haven't tried it yet, I have used Eclipse (and Aptana) on xampp with Drupal and I believe it should work with cmsms as-well.

[MattAntWest]

This should be doable. If you install your web server (XAMPP etc.) and then in Eclipse or Aptana if you create a new browser and point it to use your local web server (and obv make sure cmsms is installed on it) you should be able to view pages and access the admin panel from within Eclipse.

When setting up the new browser window I guess the easiest way would be to use the servers local IP rather than messing about trying to add the server in the 'clean' way.

I've never done this so I can't guarantee it will work but hopefully it shouldn't be too painless

[robsta]

yup it works.. have been using this setup for the past 4 years on a mac.

combine it wth the static stylesheet module and it's great!

[bbonora]

I found this article - http://docs.joomla.org/Setting_up_your_ ... evelopment. It's for Eclipse and Joomla but Aptana is built on Eclipse so allot of the stuff is the same. I actually have started to using netbeans and I think I like that the best so far.