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Cloutman, David wrote: > I interviewed at a company a while back that had four developers on > staff that was using the Zend Framework coupled with the Yahoo! UI > library. They seemed happy with their technology stack. I think their > choice was driven mostly by corporate backing and name recognition of > these two platforms. I have not used either personally. > > Also take a look at Symfony. I went to a meetup a while back, and was > impressed by how this framework offered a complete technology stack > while retaining modularity, so if you didn't like the default > components, you could easily swap them for something else. This sort of > framework modularization seems to work in the Java world, where a single > application might integrate bits and pieces of Spring, Hibernate, > Struts, etc. Personally, I prefer this paradigm to something like Rails > (or Cake PHP, to put it in a PHP context), where you pretty have to do > it one way - or else. At least that's been my perception playing with > Rails and Cake PHP. Your mileage may vary, however. I don't know where > Zend falls into this spectrum. I can't agree more with David on this. Although I'm relatively new to the PHP world I have done a lot of Java development and a strong believer in the MVC paradigm. I would go a step further and consider how a framework can support exposing view agnostic services by building a service layer into the Model. I am planning on submitting a proposal "any day now" for the Code4Lib conference that demonstrates a prototype I'm developing for a Library Assets service.