Aptana Jaxer is a new open source application server built especially for
AJAX application development in JavaScript. To say that "Jaxer lets you do
JavaScript on the server-side" would be accurate, but an understatement. The
core concept of Jaxer is that it provides a parity of environments at the
client and the server to simplify the creation of rich AJAX pages, apps, and
gadgets - and by so doing, gives the Web developer a unified runtime at both
the client and server tiers.
How does Jaxer achieve this parity of environments? The main engine in Jaxer
is the Mozilla engine - t... (more)