About Components
Zend Server Community Edition is comprised
of several components that each contributes important functionality to
facilitate the development process.
The components are:
- Zend Debugger - The Zend Debugger
communicates with the Zend (PHP) Engine to retrieve runtime information
and present it in Zend Studio for root cause analysis.
- Zend Optimizer+ - The
Zend Optimizer+ component speeds up PHP execution via opcode caching
and optimization.
- Zend Guard Loader - The
Zend Guard Loader is used in order to run PHP scripts that are encoded
with Zend Guard.
- Zend Data Cache - The Zend
Data Cache component provides a set of PHP functions to improve performance,
by storing data in the cache.
- Zend Java Bridge- The Zend
Java Bridge component makes it possible to use Java classes and code
from within PHP.
- Zend Framework - An open source
framework for developing Web applications and Web services with PHP.
Click on a link to view a full description of the components architecture.
To see how to work with a component, select a topic that begins with "Working
with..." from the section. For a short description
of each component and where it is installed, see the section in the Installation Guide.