ActiveState Releases Multi-Language IDE for Dynamic Web Development

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006; 02:05 AM

ActiveState Software Inc., a provider of tools and services for dynamic languages, announced the first beta of Komodo 4.0, introducing advanced support for Web 2.0 technologies to the award-winning IDE for dynamic languages. The release is available now.

According to ActiveState, Komodo 4.0 is the first IDE built specifically for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. A rich feature set for client-side languages, coupled with powerful support for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, enables developers to quickly and easily create robust web apps.

With this release, Komodo's dynamic language support is extended to client-side AJAX languages, including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML. The result is a unified environment for framework stacks like Ruby on Rails and CakePHP, and client libraries such as the Yahoo! UI Library and Dojo, supported by new tools including DOM Viewer, HTTP Inspector, UDL (User Defined Language) templates, secure remote file support, revamped project support, and even greater extensibility.

By supporting the full technology stack, Komodo makes it possible to edit, test, and debug entire web applications—server, client, and the HTTP conversation that connects them—within a single integrated development environment.

"Komodo 4.0 is the Swiss army knife of scripting languages and web development," says Issac Goldstand, Mirimar Networks. "With the addition of integrated JavaScript debugging, HTML/XML/CSS auto-completion, an integrated HTTP protocol inspector, an integrated DOM inspector, and a handful of other nifty tools, it's quite possibly the coolest thing to happen to scripting languages since, well, ever."

Komodo 4.0 is planned for release in early 2007. The beta release is showcased at this week's Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, October 30 to November 2, in San Jose, CA.