Adobe & Zend join hands to integrate Flex & PHP better
Adobe and Zend have joined hands to integrate Flex and PHP better. Adobe joins the Zend Framework community to contribute towards better and more efficient communication between Zend and Flex. Adobe earlier contributed an AMF implementation for PHP to the Zend community. This collaboration may also create a more integrated development environment for the two platforms. Both Flex Builder and the Zend Studio are based on the open source Eclipse platform. The Flex team blogged about the Adobe and Zend collaboration yesterday. In that blog they also point to the following useful resources:
The news was reported by many others.
Sitepoint reported the marriage between PHP and Flex. They also provided links to a 2 part tutorial series on PHP and Flex integration. The articles are as follows:
Build A Web 2.0 Voting Widget With Flex: Part I and
Build A Web 2.0 Voting Widget With Flex: Part II.
Jack Herrington who wrote these articles is also the co-author of a book we wrote together on Advanced Flex 3.
InfoWorld reported the addition of Flex to PHP for rich web application development. InfoWorld says Flex was accomodated into Zend in the same manner that Ajax was added to Zend a couple of weeks back.
Dr. Dobb’s says the goal of this arrangement is to accelerate RIA development using PHP and Flex. Read “Zend, Adobe to Collaborate on RIA Tools” for details.
SDTimes says they are teaming up to aid RIA developers.
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