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3 <sect1 id="zend.application.introduction">
4 <title>Introduction</title>
7 <classname>Zend_Application</classname> provides a bootstrapping facility for
8 applications which provides reusable resources, common- and
9 module-based bootstrap classes and dependency checking. It also takes
10 care of setting up the <acronym>PHP</acronym> environment and introduces autoloading by