Adobe announced the availability of Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 to improve rich Internet application (RIA) development for developers, enterprise IT departments and independent software providers in the rapidly growing PHP community, and Zend is part of the story.
“By including Zend Framework within Flash Builder 4, we are allowing enterprise PHP developers to easily introspect PHP classes using the powerful new data-centric development capabilities within Flash Builder,” said Bryant Macy, director of product marketing at Adobe. “Building RIAs just got easier for PHP developers with Zend technologies and the Flash Platform.”
Using the Adobe Flash Platform with PHP
Zend and Adobe have been working together to deliver an integrated solution for building rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash Platform, including Flex 4 and Adobe Flash Builder 4. Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Zend Studio 7 are both based on Eclipse version 3.5, providing PHP developers with one Integrated Development Environment for developing and debugging both the front- and back-ends of PHP and Flex-based applications.
Zend Framework AMF Support
Zend Framework with Action Message Format support (Zend AMF) is bundled with Adobe Flash Builder 4, providing an open, binary, high-speed format for rapid client-server data exchange. Zend AMF also helps ensure scalability of RIAs, especially as data load increases, while simultaneously reducing development time
