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JavaScript has a bright future. Millions of websites are being developed and every last one is looking for an edge. More often that not that edge is a better user experience. Web developers are required to understand JavaScript and, thanks to the many frameworks, very rich behavior can be achieved with very little code. And knowledge of JavaScript, in all its quirkyness, is growing fast. Aptana knows this. They build the most kick ass ajax ide out there.

Aptana also knows it is only a matter of time before these developers, their customers and ours, begin looking for deeper functionality which can only be achieved on the server side. There are many options and, while possible, JavaScript is not the most accessible language on a server. At least, it wasn’t.

Aptana just released Jaxer. An ajax server. It plays nice with Apache and apparently Java servers too. The docs are thin, these are early days, the community is brand new.

I created a Jaxer google group / mailing list to us started.

• Jaxer homepage
• Jaxer docs
• Jaxer download
• Aptana forums