Aptana, Inc. is a company that makes web application development tools for use with a variety of programming languages (such as JavaScript, Ruby, PHP and Python).

Aptana Studio is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) for building web applications.

Additional plugins allow Aptana Studio to support Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, Perl,[2] Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone and Nokia WRT (Web Runtime).

[9] The Code Assist feature includes information on browser support for JavaScript methods/properties, HTML elements and CSS properties.

[12][13] Aptana is currently led by Paul Colton, Founder and CEO, Uri Sarid, CTO/VP, Engineering and Kevin Hakman, Director of Evangelism.

Aptana is an active participant in the OpenAjax Alliance, with Hakman serving as director of the IDE Working Group.

Appcelerator in their webcast made users aware of their intention to integrate their mobile application framework with Aptana Studio, with a planned beta within Q1 2011.

Jaxer also provides for access to Java objects via the open source Direct Web Remoting project.

This provides a Gecko-based DOM and SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine to allow pages to be rendered and manipulated on the server before being sent to the browser.

Jaxer provides server-side DOM and API processing for pages served by the web server before delivering the results to the browser.

An Aptana representative noted that "there hasn't been sufficient adoption to make it a money earning proposition.

The Cloud Connect service also provides team management, hosted source control (using Subversion), remote editing/preview and application synchronization between local, staging and production environments.