Following a public beta trial in December 2008, we release of the commercial version of the free Nokia WRT Plug-In for Aptana Studio on Feb 16 2008, which helps developers create, edit, test and deploy WRT widgets for Nokia S60 devices, using either Aptana Studio or Aptana Studio Pro.

During the beta period at the end of last year, many developers tried the plug-in and provided valuable feedback to us about the features and functionality of this new tool.  Mobile application expert Marian Dholkawala recently wrote in a blog post: "The coolest thing about [the Nokia WRT Plug-In for Aptana Studio] is the ease with which it allows widgets to be created and tested. It not only cuts down the development time but also saves us the trouble of continuously packaging our files for testing within the S60 emulator and for debugging." 

Matthew Miller, author of the “Nokia Experts” blog, tried the new plug-in for himself, and concluded: “It is pretty cool to see how you can create these widgets in just a few steps and then have something you created appear on your device. I deployed the [RSS] widget to my Nokia E71 via Bluetooth and just used the default RSS setup to create my widget. There are even some basic settings in the widget, including when to check for updates.” Developers can also choose to use other Ajax libraries, as well; Aptana Studio makes these readily available. And for rapid testing during development, applications can be deployed to a mobile device via a Bluetooth connection.

We have received many other valuable inputs for the community and will continue to work in enhancing the plug-in(s). Hope this plug-in will help you in wigetizing your web content. Feel free to send your working widget to us at widgets@nokia.com. we are constantly looking out for good quality widgets.