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One of the articles on the serverside about webservices / SOA using eclipse mentioned ‘Apache Synapse’ a name which didn’t ring a bell. A good reason to google it up!

The project proposel in the apache incubator wiki describes the project as follows:
‘Synapse will be a robust, lightweight implementation of a highly scalable and distributed service mediation framework on Web services specifications.‘

Translated from management to tech:

Synapse wiil be a flexible transformation, management and routing system or entreprise service bus, under the apache (ASF v2) license! Cool!
The main aims of the project will be to support the following functions:

• connectivity
  • dynamic discovery, load-balancing and availability
  • gatewaying and routing of Web services
  • creating static and dynamic links between requesters and providers
  • bridging between SOAP over multiple protocols
  • support for building adapters to existing systems, including JMS and JCA
  • support for adding new transports and protocols
  • support for high-performance Infoset encodings of SOAP
• transformation and mediation
  • providing a framework for deploying and managing transformation and routing components
  • support for multiple mediation models including XSLT, XPATH,script-based, and Java transformation components
• management
  • support for logging, monitoring, tracing, performance measurement, failure detection, and other management of Web services
  • using WSDM/WS-Management and/or JMX

Lets hope we can give it try in the near future, and according to the incubation status there is a fair chance!