-- tristan <[email protected]> wrote (on Wednesday, 07 November 2012, 09:16 AM -0800): > Does anyone know if Zend_AMF will be supported in ZF2? > > It has disappeared from the documentation, and I stumbled across this: > > http://www.silexlabs.org/136374/the-blog/amfphp-survives-zend-amf/ > > implying that Zend_AMF is no longer supported (although the source is > somewhat suspect, since it comes from a 'competitor').
Actually, he's spot on. The number of people who have the knowledge and ability to work with the AMF protocol and thus maintain Zend_AMF I can number on one hand. Of those, none of those we've worked with are still using AMF at this point, and thus don't have any interest in maintaining the library. While my team could potentially step in, the fact is that it would take weeks to get up-to-speed enough to be able to maintain it -- and in the meantime, Adobe has basically indicated they will not be continuing support for it, and in fact are moving to web-based standards such as JSON for communicating between flash and web services. There are a few cases where AMF is still the most suitable -- particularly when it comes to streaming protocols that require authentication and authorization -- but these are not the use cases for which Zend_Amf was originally developed. As a result, we moved what was to be v2 of Zend_Amf into its own repository. If somebody wants to pick it up, get it working, and maintain it, we'll support them in terms of providing commit rights, QA review, and packaging. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | [email protected] Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc -- List: [email protected] Info: http://framework.zend.com/archives Unsubscribe: [email protected]
