12:31 PM Sep 24th
• As rich Internet application (RIA) technologies and tools, such as Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight, have been maturing, robust server-side integration is expected to become an important area for improvements. Open-source projects, like AMFPPHP, and tools, like WebORB, are targeting the integration between server logics and RIA (Flash) clients. Last week, Adobe and Zend announced collaboration efforts to contribute Action Message Format (AMF) to support the Zend framework. The result is a vendor-supported Flex and PHP integration, which will be, as Zend put it, ÂParty in the front, business in the back. According to the Adobe Flex team: This new component of the Zend framework will allow PHP developers to build Flex applications that run in the browser using Flash Player or Adobe AIR and communicate to the server using AMF. The proposal gives PHP developers an Adobe-sponsored AMF project, bringing AMF interoperability closer to what is available for ColdFusion and Java developers. …
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