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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.
ZDS (Zend Download Server) - The ZDS (Zend Download Server) component improves Apache's scalability by managing static content downloads and passing them to a dedicated process optimized for parallel downloads (not supported in Microsoft Windows).

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 Tasks section. For a short description of each component and where it is installed, see the Installed Components section in the Installation Guide.

Note:

The following components are disabled when running PHP in CLI mode: Zend Data Cache, Zend Download Server, Zend Session Clustering, Zend Optimizer+, Zend Monitor and Zend Page Cache.