Author: hiranya
Date: Fri Sep 24 08:56:32 2010
New Revision: 1000765
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<section name="Apache Synapse Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)">
<p>
- Apache Synapse is designed to be a simple, lightweight and high
performance
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) from Apache. Based on a small asynchronous
core,
- Apache Synapse has excellent support for XML and Web services - as well
as binary and text formats.
- The Synapse engine is configured with a simple XML format and comes
with a set of ready-to-use transports and mediators.
- We recommend you start by reading the QuickStart and then trying out
the samples. Synapse is made available under the <a
href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>Apache Software License
2.0</a>.
- </p><p>
- <b>Latest News</b>
- </p><p>
- Synapse 1.2 release adds the support for the <a
href="http://www.fixprotocol.org/";>Financial Information eXchange (FIX)</a> an
industry
- driven messaging standard through <a
href="http://www.quickfixj.org/";>QuickFixJ</a> as well as <a
href="http://hessian.caucho.com/";>Hessian binary web service protocol</a>, as
well as other functional, stability and performance improvements. For more
details please see the <a
href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/synapse/tags/1.2/src/main/release/docs/release_notes.txt";>1.2
release notes</a>.
- </p>
- <p>For more information, see:
- <ul>
- <li><a href="./Synapse_QuickStart.html">Quick Start Guide</a></li>
- <li><a href="./Synapse_Configuration_Language.html">The Synapse
Configuration Language</a></li>
- <li><a href="./Synapse_Samples.html">A Quick start with Synapse
Samples</a></li>
- <li><a href="./Synapse_Extending.html">Extending Synapse</a></li>
- <li>The Developer mailing list: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]";>Subscribe</a></li>
- <li>The User mailing list: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]";>Subscribe</a></li>
- <!--li>The Synapse Wiki <a
href="http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Synapse";>http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Synapse</a></li-->
- </ul>
+ Apache Synapse is a lightweight and high-performance Enterprise Service
Bus (ESB). Powered
+ by a small and asynchronous mediation engine, Apache Synapse provides
exceptional support
+ for XML, Web Services and REST. In addition to XML and SOAP, Apache
Synapse supports
+ several other content interchange formats, such as plain text, binary,
Hessian and JSON. The
+ wide range of transport adapters available for Synapse, enables it to
communicate over many
+ application and transport layer protocols. As of now, Apache Synapse has
support for protocols
+ like HTTP/S, Mail (POP3, IMAP, SMTP), JMS, TCP, UDP, VFS and FIX.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Apache Synapse is designed to be lightweight and fast. The non-blocking
HTTP transport,
+ the multi-threaded mediation engine and the streaming XML infoset
combine to ensure that
+ Synapse can mediate very high volumes of messages through the service
bus with minimum
+ delay and resource usage. Synapse also comes with comprehensive logging
capabilities,
+ statistics collection and JMX monitoring support which are crucial in
production deployments.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Synapse uses Apache Axis2 as the underlying Web Services engine.
Therefore it has outstanding
+ support for Web Services and related standards such as SOAP and WSDL.
Tried and tested
+ Axis2 modules like Apache Rampart and Apache Sandesha2 can be used with
Synapse with no
+ configuration overhead. Using such external modules, Apache Synapse
supports a range of
+ Web Services standards including WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging and
WS-Eventing. Synapse
+ also makes use of the Axis2 clustering framework and the deployment
framework to provide
+ enteprise grade clustering support and development time hot deployment
support.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The Synapse mediation engine is configured using a simple, XML-based
configuration language.
+ The configuration language and the related functional components are
designed with SOA
+ best practices in mind. As a result one could easily store configuration
fragments in an
+ external registry and import them to the mediation engine on demand.
+ Synapse ships with a large collection of useful mediators that can be
used to develop even the
+ most complex enterprise integration scenarios. If necessary, the
mediation engine can be
+ easily extended by developing custom mediators using Java or your
favorite scripting
+ language.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Apache Synapse is free and open source software distributed under the
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>Apache Software
License 2.0</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>Want to get started? Please refer one of these comprehensive manuals:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="./Synapse_QuickStart.html">Quick Start Guide</a></li>
+ <li><a href="./Synapse_Configuration_Language.html">The Synapse
Configuration Language</a></li>
+ <li><a href="./Synapse_Samples.html">Synapse Samples Catalog</a></li>
+ <li><a href="./Synapse_Extending.html">Extending Synapse</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ <p>Need some assistance with a problem? Feel free to get in touch with the
community over these
+ mailing lists:
+ <ul>
+ <li>The Developer mailing list: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]";>Subscribe</a></li>
+ <li>The User mailing list: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]";>Subscribe</a></li>
+ </ul>
</p>
-</section>
-
-<section name="Introduction">
-<p>
- Apache Synapse is an ESB that has been designed to be simple to configure,
very fast, and effective at solving many integration and gatewaying problems.
- Synapse has support for HTTP, SOAP, SMTP, JMS, FTP and file system
transports, Financial Information eXchange (FIX) and Hessian protocols for
message exchange as well as first class support for standards such as
WS-Addressing,
- Web Services Security (WSS), Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM),
efficient binary attachments (MTOM/XOP).
- Synapse can transform messages using key standards such as XSLT, XPath and
XQuery, or simply using Java. Synapse supports a number of useful
- functions out-of-the-box without programming, but it also can be extended
using popular programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy,
etc..
-</p>
-<p>
- Synapse has a completely asynchronous core, and supports non-blocking HTTP
and HTTPS using the
- excellent <a
href="http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core/index.html";>Apache HttpCore</a>
NIO module. In addition, Synapse supports JMS v1.0 and higher, Apache VFS File
Systems (FTP, SFTP, File (including zip/jar/tar/gz), Webdav, CIFS),
POP3/IMAP/SMTP transports. Apache Synapse can process
- SOAP 1.1/1.2, pure XML/REST, Text and Binary messages with support for
any-to-any conversion and transformation.
-</p>
</section>
<section name="Key Features">
- <p>The latest release of Synapse is <a
href="download/1.2/download.cgi">1.2</a>. Its key features are </p>
+ <p>The latest release of Synapse is <a
href="download/2.0/download.cgi">2.0</a>. Its key features are </p>
<ul>
<li><p>Proxy services - facilitating transport, interface
(WSDL/Schema/Policy), message format (SOAP 1.1/1.2, POX/REST, Text, Binary),
QoS (WS-Addressing/WS-Security/WS-RM) and optimization switching
(MTOM/SwA)</p></li>
