Thorsten, most of the Zend Framework integration in Studio are value-adds over PDT, so I wouldn't be surprised if you don't find many ZF-specific features in that project. This is a great opportunity to tell everyone what our philosophy is regarding the relationship between Zend Framework and Zend's commercial products. We believe what is best for our community is also best for Zend. With that in mind, we have no intention to release major functionality that is of use to the general community in ZF that requires a commercial license.
Our strategy is to provide value-adds in the commercial products themselves that make them irresistible to all you ZF developers and deployers. J We may ship major performance enhancements that cannot be made in the framework itself. We certainly will provide tools to easily use ZF with our commercial products. We will provide improved interfaces to ZF features. I could even see certain value adds that could be added to our web properties in the future. Please note, these features will be implemented in our products and/or web properties themselves, and are not really ZF features as such. A perfect example is the Zend_Tool feature. We provide all the functionality in ZF itself. But you can count on an advanced interface available in Zend Studio down the line (provided the community approves of the component and it is promoted to standard library). The current Zend Studio integration, which is very cool BTW- I use it constantly- reflects this strategy. Not the answer you were looking for, but maybe you'll find it interesting anyways. J ,Wil From: Thomas Fritz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:08 AM To: Thorsten Suckow-Homberg Cc: [email protected] Subject: [fw-general] Re: Zend Studio Integration [was: Re: [fw-general] What is planned for 1.6?] Hi Thorsten! I have made a few screenshots. Thats not all, but you should get a little overview of the benefits. If you want more screenshots let me know. I will upload them to my gallery. Heres the Link: http://fritzthomas.com/geillery/Zend+Studio.html Regards Tom On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Thorsten Suckow-Homberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any information about the benefits I'd have when using Zend Studio with ZF? I'm using Eclipse PDT and I rarely experience any advantages... I know the deadline was already, but i think it would be very interesting for people to know that the integration with the Zend Studio is already very good and will be much better when the Zend_Tool_* things ready. Because i think that is a big reason for people to use a framework - "How good is the integration in IDEs - Hos fast can we develop with it??"
