

Such a deep collaboration between a major server-side framework and a market leading client-side Javascript framework is a rarity in the Web community. I’d also like to extend the team's thanks to Alex Russell, Dylan Schiemann, and Peter Higgins from the Dojo Foundation who supported the collaboration between ZF and Dojo and helped make the integration a reality for the 1.6 release.

The ZF team (Wil Sinclair, Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Ralph Schindler, Alexander Veremyev) along with many others in the ZF community and at Zend, have been doing a superb job and have been working very hard to put this release together. You can email me at Zend Framework Community has delivered another feature-rich release of Zend Framework and I'm extremely proud and happy to see the energy and excitement around this project. If you've already made good use of PHP and Flex and think that your company would make a good case-study please let me know. There are also several articles on Flex, AIR and PHP on the Zend Developer Zone. We have already started putting some content together which you can find on Adobe's Flex PHP Developer Zone. In addition, we will work on publishing more developer oriented content so that we make it easier to get started. In fact, you are even able to use both within the same Web application. You will probably quickly get a good feeling for what use-cases you'd want to use Flex in and when Ajax. I really think Adobe has very exciting technology for building RIAs and recommend people familiarize themselves with Flex. Strengths of Flex include significant productivity gains, WYSIWYG tooling with Flex Builder, good performance, support in Adobe AIR which helps bridge Web applications to the desktop and many more cool features. Also, as I've already mentioned in a previous post, Adobe has joined the ZF community. This is a good testament for the benefits of the Eclipse eco-system which was one of the main reason we chose it for our next-generation of Zend Studio. I am excited about this partnership as it helps deliver a premier RIA technology to our users.Īs part of the collaboration we will make sure that our users can successfully plug-in Flex Builder into Zend Studio for Eclipse. The goal of the partnership is to make it easier for developers to use Flex with PHP. Today we announced a partnership with Adobe Systems.
