I'm pleased to announce that
Zend Framework will be partnering
with Dojo Toolkit to deliver
out-of-the-box Ajax and rich user interfaces for sites developed in Zend
Framework.
First off, for those ZF users who are using other Javascript toolkits: Zend
Framework will continue to be basically JS toolkit agnostic. You will still
be able to use whatever toolkit you want with ZF applications. ZF will
simply be shipping Dojo so that users have a toolkit by default. Several
points of integration have been defined, and my hope is that these can be
used as a blueprint for community contributions relating to other javascript
frameworks. In the meantime, developers choosing to use Dojo will have a
rich set of components and integration points to work with.
The integration points we have defined for our initial release are as
follows:
