This document provides an overview of the Symfony framework and its components. It discusses: - The front controller (app[_env].php) which bootstraps the application - The ClassLoader which implements autoloading based on PSR-0 - The HttpKernel which handles requests and returns responses - The DependencyInjection component which manages the service container - Bundles which extend Symfony functionality and can hook into the request-response lifecycle - The Router which matches URLs to controllers - The FrameworkBundle which ties other components together into a full-stack MVC framework