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<sect1 id="zend.application.introduction">
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>
        <classname>Zend_Application</classname> provides a bootstrapping facility for
        applications which provides reusable resources, common- and
        module-based bootstrap classes and dependency checking. It also takes
        care of setting up the <acronym>PHP</acronym> environment and introduces autoloading by
        default.
    </para>
</sect1>
