Zend Released New Version of its Application Server for PHP

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Zend Technologies announced it is now shipping version 3.6 of its Zend Platform application server for PHP. The company also released Zend Studio for Eclipse, an IDE for PHP based on Eclipse open source technology.

Zend Platform 3.6 offers capabilities to monitor HTTP, Apache, and Java events. Expanded performance alerts, and better diagnostics through the debugging of production problems on development servers are also available.

Zend 3.6 monitors PHP applications in real time, and reports on script errors, database and performance issues, and etc. Company says that new version helps web hosts to reduce downtime by recording the full context for reported problems to enable root cause diagnostics and short time to resolution.

Version 3.6 also comes with an automatic output compression to save bandwidth. It features enhanced job queues for deferred and offline processing, as well as an expanded options for caching content, with support for file or URL-based caching, client-side caching, and in-memory or disk-based caching.

“With this release Zend is offering smarter, URL-based caching as an alternative to individual script-based caching”, said enterprise software analyst Vishwanath Venugopalan. He added that URL-based caching “brings it closer to how an end-user interacts with an application,”. This approach is likely to improve application performance, has also Venugopalan said.

Zend accommodates Java systems. PHP and Java are becoming more intertwined, with PHP being used for development and mixing with server-side Java.

Zend Studio for Eclipse?

Zend Studio for Eclipseimproves the quality of PHP applications, speeds development cycles, and simplifies complex projects. It offers editing, debugging, analysis, and database tools. The cost of the software is $399 per developer. A special introductory price of $299 is in effect for a limited time. Zend Framework subscription starts at $1,500 per server.