I've lately been exploring the value proposition of RESTful APIs to organizations whose technological infrastructures are built upon a collection of legacy software components, customized to communicate with each other by highly tailored middleware software stacks.
Tag: #Symfony
The Symfony project has recently launched the Symfony Components sub-project and website. Its goal is to produce a collection of standalone libraries for PHP.
I've recently been working on Symfony / Propel projects that deal with particularly large data sets. In such cases, Propel's documentation recommends a "lazy hydration" approach.