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Zend Framework 1.0.0 Released

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:44 am
by CoderGoblin
Looks like they have gone and done it.

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:33 am
by Oren
Yep, they did 8)

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:58 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Beat me to the punch ;).

Andi Gutmans has posted his thoughts over at http://andigutmans.blogspot.com/2007/07 ... eased.html . The website has also seen a few updates, and you can read the future roadmap over on http://framework.zend.com/whyzf/future/ .

I think it's a good time to start looking at the framework. It still has a few warts (weak View composition, somewhat complex View integration into Controllers, not the most flexible Input validation class) and some of us are no doubt critical of about the compromises the framework made in MVC, but this release has always been more about making the API stable and permanent (makes adoption far easier) than finishing up every little detail. At least for the future there won't be any migration tasks between point releases and subversion ought to be that much more stable - which is a relief for anyone who's spent time solving migration issues for the ZF releases so far :).

There's still some way to go before it wins any Framework war, but I'm using it regularly at this stage and once you have a basic application skeleton in place it's pretty easy to work with, easy to subclass for extra functionality and swap out components (I use Swiftmailer instead of Zend_Mail, and a DAO library over Zend_Db).

It's interesting from a personal view that they now mention OpenID and YAML support on the future roadmap so prominently. These are two areas I've developed in previously and for which I now have related proposals in place. In the case of OpenID, this only extends to a Yadis Protocol implementation - my originally planned OpenID proposal was pulled back two weeks ago after some weird moves by Zend (via an email from Andi one Saturday morning) to push its own OpenID proposal in at breakneck speed when I had begun mentioning mine. Hopefully I don't see another ZF mailing list announcement from anyone else that Zend are also now working on a YAML parser and managed to miss (again) my existing proposal ;).