At the ZendCon PHP conference, Zend and Adobe announce plans to collaborate to help PHP developers better leverage Adobe’s user experience technologies. The two companies will enable PHP developers to make better use of Adobe’s Flash and Flex technology.At
the Zend PHP Conference 2008, also known as ZendCon, Zend Technologies
and Adobe Systems announced plans to collaborate to make Zend's PHP
technologies work better with Adobe's user experience technologies.
At the event being held Sept. 15-18 in Santa Clara, Calif., the two
companies said they will collaborate to make Zend's PHP tools play
nicely with Adobe's Flex technology for building rich internet
applications (RIAs). Indeed, the two companies will deliver
technologies, content and services to make it easy for enterprise
developers to build RIAs using Flex on the client and PHP on the
server.
One of the core deliverables of this collaboration is to integrate
Adobe's Action Message Format (AMF) support into Zend Framework. AMF is
an open, binary, high-speed format enabling Adobe Flash Player and
Flex-based client applications to better exchange rich media and other
data with servers, Adobe officials said.
Flex is Adobe's open source framework for building and maintaining
web applications that deploy across all major browsers and operating
systems using Adobe Flash Player and to the desktop via Adobe AIR,
company officials said. Zend Framework is an open source PHP
application framework. AMF support in Zend Framework delivers optimized
communication between server-side Zend Framework components and
client-side Adobe Flex components. With the Zend/Adobe collaboration,
PHP developers will be able to leverage the fast transfer of data
between the server and client tiers of their web applications.
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