-- keith Pope <mute.p...@googlemail.com> wrote (on Friday, 30 October 2009, 04:43 PM +0000): > 2009/10/30 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matt...@zend.com>: > > -- keith Pope <mute.p...@googlemail.com> wrote > > (on Friday, 30 October 2009, 04:02 PM +0000): > > > 2009/10/30 Ralph Schindler <ralph.schind...@zend.com> : > > > Also will we be deprecating Zend_Db as if we have tight Doctrine > > > integration is there any reason to keep Zend_Db? > > > > There are plenty of reasons to keep Zend_Db. Not everyone will be using > > Doctrine, and for many one-off types of applications (single tables, or > > multiple tables with no relations, etc.), having Zend_Db around will > > continue to be essential. Additionally, one aspect I'd like to explore > > with the Doctrine folks is potentially allowing Zend_Db adapters as > > Doctrine RDBMS adapters; this would provide some very interesting > > integration points. > > Sounds interesting I look forward to seeing this initiative develop > further, I would be happy to help in any way I can :) > > Once we have the integration especially with doctrine 2 would there be > any further plans to look at things like dependency injection, > criteria objects and repositories or any other DDD tools? To me having > a full suite of tools like this would be a great long term goal?
DI is something we're already planning for -- you'll note the "unified constructor" pattern in all new components. Whether or not we'll have a DI _container_ is another question; I'm not entirely convinced DI containers have a good place in stateless applications, but I'll let Ralph talk more to that point. :) As for criteria objects, we've just approved another of Ben's components, some extensions to Zend_Db_Expr. One aspect I particularly like with it is that, combined with Zend_Db_Select, we are getting to a point where we have an almost complete criteria object for select operations. This could certainly be adapted for use with DDD fairly easily. Regarding repositories, Zend_Application_Bootstrap actually already acts as one in many ways -- though we may do more with this and/or service locators for 2.0. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matt...@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
