Magento2 Features and Changes

Component changes:

• Removed Some payment Method and bundled Community Modules
• Removed/Ceased: Mage_Oscommerce,Mage_XMlConnect,Mage_DataFlow,Mage_Compiler

Functional Changes:

• Theme configuration: simple into one field
• Enabling Profiler: handled by bootstrap
• Customizing Email Template : no more relation to locale
• Session Time out : Cookie lifetime(No more cookie life time)

File Structure Modularity:

In Magento 1.x	In Magento 2.x
app/deisgn/<area>/baase/default	app/code/<pool>/<module>/view/<area>
skin/<area>/base/default	same (no distinction)
js/	same
app/locale/en_Us/template/email/*.html	app/code/<pool>/<Module>/view/email/*.html

File structure:

Root ItemsWas in Magento 1.x	Root ItemsWas in Magento 2.x
errors	pub/errors
Includes	n/a
js	pub/js
media	pub/media
pkginfo	n/a
shell	dev/shell
skin	app/design/<appropriate theme>
index.php,cron.php,get.php	index.php,pub/index.php,pub/cron.php
bootstrap logic scartted across entry points	app/bootstrap.php

Frame Work Naming:

            Lot of Difference is there for Naming Conversion in Magento1.x and Magento2.x.

Magento2.x uses Real name and Fully Qualify module names across the board.

            Magento1.x:

·         Mage::getModel(‘catalog/product’);

·         getTableName(‘admin/role’)

·         customer, checkout

Magento2.x:

·         Mage:getModel(‘Mage_Catalog_Model_Product’) (real class name)

·         getTableName(‘admin_role’) (real table Name)

·         Mage_Customer,Mage_Checkout (Fully Qualify module names across the board

Frame Work Configuration:

·         Eliminated Excessive Section (up to 20% of all config.xml)

·         Move out some of the file to specialized files

·         simplified rewrites mechanism

·         Added merging mechanism that allows XMl-Schema validation (implemented for        new types of configuration)

               

Frame Work Significant Other:

1.      Controller : formally separated routing of application areas

2.      View: Unlimited theme fall back hierarchy

3.      Introduced container (Structural elements in layout in addition to blocks)

4.      Eliminating skins (only themes remain) eliminating packages physically from the file

5.      Managing themes and design packages in entities in database

6.      decoupling controllers from layout through universal “context” engine

7.      Migrating to Jquery

8.      Model service Layer

9.      Improving Performance for API routing and granular loading of WSDL for only requested resources

User Experience:

A.      Information Architecture of the menus

B.      Product creation flow

C.      Taxes UX

D.      Navigation ACL

E.   Backend usability and UI

Magento tools:

a.       Migration tools to assists data and code from 1.x to 2.x

b.      applications/ components /themes deployment (installation/ upgrade as new tools)

c.       Zend Framework 2