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| <title>The lightweight ESB</title> |
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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>. |
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| <b>Latest News</b> |
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| In December 2007, Apache Synapse became a top level project (TLP) of the |
| Apache Software Foundation. |
| </p> |
| <p>For more information, see: |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="./quickstart.html">Quick Start Guide</a></li> |
| <li><a href="./configuration.html">The Synapse Configuration Language</a></li> |
| <li><a href="./samples.html">A Quick start with Synapse Samples</a></li> |
| <li><a href="./extending.html">Extending Synapse</a></li> |
| <li>The Developer mailing list: <a href="mailto:dev-subscribe@synapse.apache.org">Subscribe</a></li> |
| <li>The User mailing list: <a href="mailto:user-subscribe@synapse.apache.org">Subscribe</a></li> |
| <!--li>The Synapse Wiki <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Synapse">http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Synapse</a></li--> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </section> |
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| <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, 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, and Groovy. |
| </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> |
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| <section name="Key Features"> |
| <p>The latest release of Synapse is <a href="../download/1.1.1/download.cgi">1.1.1</a>. Its key features are </p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li><p>Proxy services - facilitating transport, interface (WSDL/Schema/Policy), message format (SOAP 1.1/1.2, POX/REST, Text, Binary), QoS (WS-Security/RM) and optimization switching (MTOM/SwA)</p></li> |
| <li><p>Non-blocking http/s transports based on Apache <a target="_blank" href="http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core/index.html">HttpCore</a> for ultrafast execution and support for thousands of connections</p></li> |
| <li><p>Built in Registry/Repository, facilitating dynamic updating and reloading of the configuration and associated resources (e.g. XSLTs, XSD, JS, ..)</p></li> |
| <li><p>Easily extended via custom Java class (mediator and command)/Spring mediators, or BSF Scripting languages (Javascript, Ruby, Groovy etc)</p></li> |
| <li><p>Built in support for scheduling tasks using the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.opensymphony.com/quartz">Quartz</a> scheduler</p></li> |
| <li><p>Load-balancing/Fail-over, and clustered Throttling and Caching support</p></li> |
| <li><p>WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging & Throttling configurable via WS-Policies</p></li> |
| <li><p>JMS (v1.x upwards) message support for binary, plain text and XML and SOAP payloads</p></li> |
| <li><p>Enhanced support for Apache VFS transports (s/ftp, file, zip/tar/gz, webdav, cifs..)</p></li> |
| <li><p>Support for message splitting & aggregation using the EIP</p></li> |
| <li><p>Database lookup & store support with DBMediators</p></li> |
| <li><p>Enhanced Mail transport with POP3/SMTP/IMAP protocols</p></li> |
| <li><p>Ability to pin a proxy service or a task to server instances on a cluster</p></li> |
| <li><p>Lightweight, XML and Web services centric messaging model</p></li> |
| <li><p>Configurations serialized into a file system for versioning/backup & restoration with built-in Registry support</p></li> |
| <li><p>Support for Error handling and timeouts, recovery with http/s aintainance mode & gracefull shutdown</p></li> |
| <li><p>JMX monitoring support</p></li> |
| <li><p>Many samples and a built-in Axis2 server to try out and experiment with samples (Samples includes WS-Security, JMS POX/Text messages, Script mediation and many more samples which can be run out of the box) </p></li> |
| <li><p>Enhanced documentation</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| </section> |
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