Use Ext, Aptana and AIR
Back in July 2008 I wrote a tutorial titled “Use Ext, Aptana and AIR to build desktop applications” that has been published on IBM’s developerWorks website. The tutorial explores the concepts of the Aptana IDE (Integrated Development Environment), the Ext JavaScript library and the Adobe AIR platform, before walking through the process of setting up a development environment for building applications using these technologies. Once the environment is set up, a simple hello world application is created. The tutorial then concludes with the development of a simple contact management utility using Ext and deployed to the desktop using Adobe AIR.
The following is the blurb for the tutorial as found on the developerWorks website:
While Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 have been all the rage, the latest wave of emerging technologies are focusing on not only giving Web applications a desktop-like feel but actually bringing them to the desktop. The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) has led the way, allowing Web application developers to leverage their existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and Flex to build powerful desktop applications. In this tutorial, you will use the open source Aptana Studio IDE, the Adobe AIR plug-in for Aptana, and the open-source JavaScript framework Ext.
You can view the tutorial in full at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-os-ext-air.html
