How to Install Aptana Plug-in on Eclipse

If you are specialized in both Java and PHP programming, you might want an integrated IDE to program both Java and PHP project. Here I introduce a formal way to make this happen by installing Aptana plug-in on Eclipse for J2EE 4.4.

1. Add Aptana update site to Eclipse.

Properties - Eclipse

Add an update site for Aptana software.


Update sites management - Eclipse

Fill a name for this site and paste the following URL to the second field, then click OK.
http://download.aptana.com/studio3/plugin/install


Add an update site dialog - Eclipse




After adding an update site - Eclipse



2. Install Aptana plug-in via Eclipse.

Install New Software - Eclipse

Paste the following URL to the first field, check the only item in the list, then click OK.
http://download.aptana.com/studio3/plugin/install


Indicating URL for installing new software - Eclipse

Confirm page before installing new software - Eclipse

License agreement before installing new software - Eclipse

Installing in progress - Eclipse

Confirmation dialog before restart Eclipse

3. Compare New Project Wizard between before and after Aptana installation.
Before Aptana plug-in installed.
You can see there's no PHP project can be selected.


"New Project Wizard" before Aptana plug-in installed - Eclipse

After Aptana plug-in installed.
You can see that we have PHP, Rails, and Ruby, etc projects available to use in New Project Wizard.


"New Project Wizard" after Aptana plug-in installed - Eclipse

More information about Aptana plug-in, please refer to the page:
Aptana | Download