Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio is a popular web-development environment that offers integrated language support for HTML, DOM, JavaScript™, and CSS technologies, as well as embedded development platforms and databases for PHP, Jaxer, Ruby on Rails, and Python. Aptana Studio is available free of charge under an open source licence, while Aptana Studio Pro is a commercial product. Both products are based on the Eclipse framework.

The Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio provides features that enable the creation, editing, testing, and deployment of WRT widgets from within Aptana Studio or Aptana Studio Pro.

WRT widgets are small, task-focused web applications that are installed and run in the same way as other S60 applications. WRT widgets allow websites or web services to be optimised for use on S60 devices. Because they're easy to develop and use, WRT widgets are ideal for driving traffic to your website from S60 devices.

What's the latest news about the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio?

Nokia WRT Plug-in 2.0 for Aptana Studio is now available. This new version adds features that enable the creation and testing of widgets for all Nokia S60 devices that support WRT. This includes support for the new home-screen-widget capability of the Nokia N97 mobile computer.

The new features include support for:

• Web Runtime 1.1 API and S60 Platform Services 1.0 API, with support for code-completion and previewing widgets.
• Previewing home-screen widgets.
• Touch-based interaction in the widget preview.
• Importing widgets directly from a widget package.
• Charger, SMS and MMS messaging, and memory-card event triggers in the widget preview.
• A JavaScript console in the widget preview window.
• Migration of widgets created in Nokia WRT Plug-in 1.0 for Aptana Studio.
• The latest WRTKit documentation.
• What can I do with the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio?

S60 WRT widgets use standard web technologies, such as HTML and JavaScript™. Aptana Studio is a tool designed to make working with standard web technologies straightforward.

The Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio adds the features WRT widget developers need to develop with Aptana Studio and Aptana Studio Pro. These features allow existing WRT widget projects to be imported or new projects to be created easily. WRT widget code can then be written rapidly using features such as full JavaScript code completion for the WRT 1.1 API. Once the widget has been coded, the plug-in provides features to preview, debug, package, and deploy the widget. In addition, the plug-in includes the WRTKit library, which contains images and JavaScript code to enable the creation of visually appealing and functionally rich WRT widgets. And you have the freedom to use the plug-in on a computer running either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS X operating system.

The Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio enables you to use your favourite web-authoring tool to develop useful, exciting WRT widgets that maximise the traffic to your website or web service from S60 devices.

For more information on creating WRT widgets, visit the Web Runtime QuickStart page »

What's in the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio?

The tool package contains the Aptana Studio plug-in and documentation. The plug-in provides features to create, edit, test, debug, package, and deploy WRT widgets. The documentation includes the Web Developer's Library, WRTKit Documentation, and Web Runtime Plug-in Help.

For more information, visit the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio features page »

How do I get started with the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio?

You'll need to be familiar with the development of web pages using standard web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript™, and Ajax. No specific knowledge of the S60 platform is required to create widgets for WRT.

Next, you'll need Aptana Studio, which you download from the Aptana website. Aptana Studio can be installed on a Microsoft Windows 32- or 64-bit platform, Mac OS X 10.4+, Linux 32-bit with GTK, or 64-bit Linux. Full details of system requirements are provided on the Aptana Studio download page. Please note that the Nokia WRT Plug-in will support running on Linux computers in a future release.

Note that only the stand-alone versions of Aptana Studio and Aptana Studio Pro are supported by the Nokia WRT Plug-in.

Once Aptana Studio is installed, the Nokia WRT Plug-in installation process is started by selecting the My Aptana tab in the editor, then clicking the Plugins icon. Locate the Nokia WRT Plug-in under the Platforms tab and install it by clicking Get it. Once installed, Aptana Studio will regularly check for updates to the plug-in.

For more information, visit the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio QuickStart page or download the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio QuickStart Guide.

How do I go to market with my WRT widgets?

The Ovi store is an effective channel through which to distribute your widgets worldwide to tens of millions of S60 devices from Nokia.

For more information, visit the publish to Ovi Store page »

You can also distribute your WRT widgets on a company website, on an intranet, or through your favourite social-networking sites. To have WRT widgets installed automatically when deployed through the Web Browser for S60, ensure that they're given the MIME type AddType x-nokia-widget .wgz on the server.

With which Nokia platforms and devices is the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio compatible?

You can use the Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio to create WRT widgets for any S60 device supporting WRT.