PHP developers will get new
goodies for building mobile apps with the latest release of Zend
Technologies' integrated development environment, Zend Studio 12,
which was unveiled last week at the ZendCon conference in San
Francisco. The company also unveiled a beta of Zend Server 8, which
becomes generally available on open systems platforms next month.
Zend Studio 12 brings a mess of
new capabilities for building Web applications that are housed on
servers and features user interfaces for mobile devices like
smartphones and tablets. Chief among them are support for three open
source frameworks for building mobile Web apps, including Apache
Cordova (i.e. PhoneGap), Ionic, and AngularJS.
Zend is also now supporting its
Z-Ray code inspection facility with Studio. Z-Ray, which was
introduced earlier this yea with the introduction of Zend Server
version 7, is designed to provide "unprecedented"
visibility to what's going on inside of applications in real time.
Studio 12 also brings support for PHP 5.6, Amazon Web Services (AWS),
and the Eclipse 4 Luna development platform, which supports Java 8.
IBM i shops will be happy to see
updates to the XMLService Toolkit, a built-in library for that helps
developers extend PHP code to IBM i resources, including making RPG
and COBOL program calls, accessing DB2/400 and data queues, utilizing
native system APIs, and accessing spool files. The toolkit, which
Zend initially introduced back in 2012, is part of the Zend Server
for IBM i product.
In other news, the Cupertino,
California, company used the conference to unveil a new release of
the Zend Server runtime with Zend Server 8.
Chief among the new features in
Zend Server 8 is Z-Ray Live, which the company says broadens the
scope of Z-Ray to include debugging of mobile and web services APIs.
Z-Ray has also been bolstered to provide real-time visibility to
PHP's inner-workings within several common applications and
frameworks, including IBM i, Magento, WordPress, Drupal, ZendFramework, and Symfony.
Zend Server 8, which becomes
available in December, also brings support for running Linux on
Power8, in addition to running on X86 servers with Windows, Linux,
and Mac OS. You can expect to see support IBM i on Power 8 when Zend
Server 8 ships at a later date.
Zend Studio 12 pricing starts at
$189 for new users. It's $29 for students and free to teachers,
classrooms, and open source project developers. For more info see
www.zend.com.
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