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I recently updated all my eclipses on all my workstations to Ganymede, of course this requires reinstalling my favorite plug-ins (or non favorite but mandatory :p)
I like Ganymede( 3.4) more then 3.3. E.g. The mouse-over javadoc shower got enhanced, the updater (for eclipse and plugins) works better and to my feeling, Eclipse handles background processes better then before( this could of course only be an impression).
All of these are installed on JEE Version of Eclipse.
On second opinion, I switched back to eclipse/wtp/pdt it handles the php a bit better. At least, the php doc works here, and eclipse/wtp is smart enough to give me auto completion for self written classes, which is not the case in aptana (at least not in the free version). Configuring xampp for eclipse is not that hard to do it manually so… bye bye aptana for now. (I did not test it for Javascript yet)
While I’m a huge fan of Eclipse IDE, I recently discovered Aptana. Aptana is build on Eclipse but optimized for use with Ajax libraries and scripting languages like JavaScript, Ruby and PHP. Like they state it themselves. And you know what? It is as they say. For so far I tried it out. It works really smooth and since I’m used to eclipse it doesn’t take 30 minutes to know how everything works.
If you’re a web developer aptana is worth a try.