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APACHE SYNAPSE PROJECT RELEASES 1.0 MAKING IT
QUICKER AND SIMPLER TO
IMPLEMENT SOA
Open Source SOA Framework becomes full Apache
project and releases 1.0
For Immediate Release --
Contact: Paul Fremantle, Apache Synapse Committer,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.apache.org/ -- May XXX, 2007 --
The Apache Software Foundation today announced that
the Apache Synapse
project has released its first full version, Apache
Synapse 1.0. The
project recently graduated from the Apache Incubator
to become a full
Apache project, as part of the Web Services PMC.
Apache Synapse is a
easy-to-use and lightweight XML and Web Services
management and
integration broker that can form the basis of a
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Apache Synapse is built on the foundation of the
highly successful
Apache Axis2 project, and it offers the ability to
mediate, manage and
transform XML messages between different
applications.
The Apache Synapse project has released a number of
milestones since
its inception in 2005, and this release is the
culmination of this
open source communities efforts. "We are very
pleased to have released
the 1.0 version", said Paul Fremantle, VP of
Technical Sales at WSO2
and a committer on the project. "Apache Synapse is a
great piece of
technology, helping users to build a Service
Oriented Architecture
more easily and quicker than without this project.
The 1.0 release
signals that we are ready for mainstream users to
start getting the
benefits of Apache Synapse."
OPEN SOURCE SOA FRAMEWORK
Apache Synapse aims to help organizations build
Service Oriented
Architectures based on Open Source and Open
Standards. Using a simple
configuration based approach, Apache Synapse allows
users to add a
whole new level of control to their existing
integration links, as
well as create new links between applications,
without rewriting
existing code.
Apache Synapse has defined a new model for SOA and
ESBs based on
lightweight XML mediation. "While the common pattern
for commercial
SOA infrastructure software consists of fully
featured, but often
complex products with underlying code from various
vintages, open
source SOA infrastructure products tend to be
lightweight and highly
tuned for the specific job at hand," said Jason
Bloomberg, Senior
Analyst, ZapThink. "Now that Apache Synapse is a
full Apache project,
organizations implementing SOA now have access to a
lightweight, high
performance Service intermediary solution that can
serve as an ESB if
necessary, but can just as easily provide
distributed intermediation
as part of a lightweight, high-speed,
standards-based SOA
infrastructure."
The Apache Synapse 1.0 release offers a wide range
of mediation
capabilities, including support for a number of open
standards,
including XML, XSLT, XPath, SOAP, HTTP, JMS, Web
Services Security,
Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM), SMTP and
Web Services
Addressing. 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, and Groovy.
MAKING SOA SIMPLE
Apache Synapse makes it really simple and easy to
manage advanced
standards such as WS-Security and
WS-ReliableMessaging.
"In the complex world of Web Services, with lots of
WS-*
specifications, Apache Synapse is a very welcome
addition", said Tijs
Rademakers, Software Architect for Atos Origin and a
committer on the
project. "With the simple-to-use, but very powerful
Apache Synapse
configuration language, implementing functions like
transformation,
validation and routing is a breeze. Even dealing
with complex
standards like WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-Policy
and WS-Reliable
Messaging becomes easy."
EASILY INTEGRATED
Because Apache Synapse is a lightweight Open Source
component, it is
very simple to integrate it into wider solutions.
"In the SOA integration space, we found that Apache
Synapse was
exactly what we needed," said Michael Clovis, VP,
Development,
Mindbridge Software. "We required a lightweight
mediator for Web
Services to embed into our products. The system had
to be able to act
as an integration bus while at the same time
allowing us to build our
forge site. Mindbridge found that Apache Synapse met
all of its needs
perfectly. "In fact", said Clovis, "This flexibility
gave Mindbridge
the ability to deploy it in all phases of its
business model.
Mindbridge's expertise is corporate data compliance
using Open Source
software. Apache Synapse met our security and
reliability guidelines,
with the smallest footprint of the products tested.
Add to that an
educated, helpful user base and Apache Synapse is a
winner."
HIGHLY PERFORMANT
Apache Synapse is one of the few Open Source ESB
solutions that offers
a completely asynchronous, non-blocking model. This
means that Synapse
can scale up to handle thousands of connections
without running out of
threads. Synapse also uses the Apache Axiom
technology to perform
content-based routing while avoiding unnecessary XML
parsing. Initial
performance tests show that Synapse can provide
service mediation on
standard 1k XML messages with less than 1ms overhead
on standard
hardware.
Apache Synapse 1.0 can be downloaded from the Apache
Synapse website
at http://ws.apache.org/synapse
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