Web Service Mediation Framework
WSO2, a company started by key leaders of the Apache Web Services Project, announced the creation of Synapse, a new project tasked with creating a Web service mediation framework. The project proposal has been submitted to the Apache Software Foundation "incubator" under the Web Services project.
Synapse is an open source implementation of a Web service mediation framework and components for use in developing and deploying SOA infrastructures. Synapse provides a framework to intermediate between two or more Web Services, allowing users to introduce transformation and routing, promote loose coupling between services, and support greater reliability and resiliency. Additional details about Synapse are available on the Apache Software Foundation Incubator site at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SynapseProposal.
WSO2 is joined by a list of leading companies in the Web Services and ESB spaces, including Blue Titan, IONA, Infravio and Sonic Software. These companies will draw on their industry expertise and leadership positions to build a set of components that work together with Axis2 and other Apache / open source projects to create a flexible transformation, management and routing system. To seed this project, Infravio will donate code from its X-Broker product.
"We are pleased to work with industry leaders on the mediation aspects of Web Services," said Paul Fremantle, vice president of technology at WSO2. "Synapse is another significant step towards our objective of creating the best possible Web Services platform in Apache."
"The emergence of an open source Web service mediation project under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation and its successful model for achieving wide-spread adoption represents a major step forward for the evolution of Web Services," said Dave Chappell, vice president and chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software, and author of the O'Reilly ESB book. "Synapse provides the ideal open, community-based environment for establishing a common, interoperable mediation framework for Web Services, and it will be influential in driving adoption of SOA principles in the industry at large."
"Our donation of X-Broker code to Synapse reflects our continuing commitment to open standards and open source development," said Miko Matsumura, vice president of technology at Infravio. "We are excited to be working with such a high quality group of companies and individuals. Our primary focus is SOA Registry and this project ensures our customers an open, compatible and complementary run time environment."
"Companies are increasingly interested in leveraging the benefits of open source software to support their SOA initiatives," said Eric Newcomer, CTO, IONA. "We're excited that ObjectWeb's Celtix open source ESB will contribute to Synapse, the Apache incubator project to develop an open source mediation framework. There are many technologies required to deploy a successful SOA, and the Synapse community clearly understands these requirements."
"We view the development of open technologies as critical to SOA adoption and are excited to be working with industry leaders on the creation of Synapse," said Frank Martinez, CTO and chairman of Blue Titan Software. "Blue Titan believes mediation models and frameworks enable customers to design, deploy and scale SOAs in real-world heterogeneous environments. Synapse will be an open source technology that will help customers be successful with their SOA deployments while leveraging the standards-compliance, interoperability and Web Services focus offered by Apache Axis2."
"One year after the launch of ObjectWeb's ESB initiative, we are very happy to see that open source is becoming increasingly popular amongst the vendors of integration solutions," said Jean-Pierre Laisne, ObjectWeb Chairman of the Board and Linux & Open Source Initiative Manager with Bull. "We encourage projects and communities to find synergies and work together, and will work to make ObjectWeb instrumental in this respect."
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