eZ Components 2008.2

Expected release date: End of 2008

Mission

In this release our main focus is to add MVC support to the eZ Components. Besides this main focus, we will also enhance some of the critical components that the upcoming version of eZ Publish will require.

New components

We are planning the following new components:

MvcTools

Where most frameworks dictate a specific router, controller and view, the MVC implementation in eZ Components will only consist of very loosely based parts. For each of the specific parts of MVC we will provide one or more default implementations, as well as detailed information on how to write your own implementations of a Model, View and Controller. Of course most of those implementations will be done through Tie-in components.

Enhancing existing components

Additionally, the existing components will be improved further. Major parts here are the following:

Developer Mode

A configuration switch in the Base component that all other components will use as well. The switch switches between "development mode", where all the possible checks are being made; and "production mode", where as many safety checks are omitted to increase performance.

Document

More supported formats, such as the eZ Publish format, writing ReST files, reading XHTML files and wiki formats.

PersistentObject

Identity mapping: Avoids the problem of having 2 objects with the same database state and caches object relations.
Pre-fetching: Allows to fetch objects and their related objects with a single query.