Yoav If you had to cut 25% off what would you ditch? I agree its quite long.
Paul On 5/9/07, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, It's a little long for my personal taste, but otherwise the release text looks great. Good use of headlines / sections, good quotes, nice simple introduction of what the project is at the beginning. Yoav On 5/8/07, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Apache Synapse team are about to release a 1.0 of the product and > we would like a press release to accompany the 1.0. Here is the draft > that has been reviewed by the dev list. > > APACHE SYNAPSE PROJECT RELEASES 1.0 MAKING IT QUICKER AND SIMPLER TO > IMPLEMENT SOA > > For Immediate Release -- > > Contact: Paul Fremantle, 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." > > Synapse can be used in a number of situations, including bridging > between SOAP and non-SOAP system, offloading support for WS-RM and > WS-Security, logging and monitoring > interactions, content-based routing and more. Synapse can also form > the core runtime of an SOA governance solution. > The team has recently added support for remote registries making it even easier > to integrate Synapse into a wider SOA solution. > > 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 serving as a product that > we could use internally to build our forge site. Mindbridge found that > Apache Synapse met all of its needs perfectly. "In fact", said Clovis, > "the development team commented that they were particularly impressed > by Apache Synapse's ability to act as a reliable tested proxy, a smart > client and as a Gateway server". This flexibility gave Mindbridge the > ability to deploy in all phases of its business model. Mindbridge's > expertise is corporate data compliance using Open Source software, and > Apache Synapse met the Mindbridge's security and reliability > guidelines, while leaving the smallest footprint of the products the > company tested. Add to that extensibility, Spring support, and an > educated, helpful user base and Apache Synapse is a winner for > Mindbridge now and in the future. > > 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. This loosely coupled model means that Synapse can perform > useful facilities like load-balancing and failover management without > becoming a bottleneck itself. Synapse also uses the Apache Axiom > technology to ensure that messages are mediated with the least > possible processing. For example, Synapse can perform content-based > routing using XML headers while avoiding unnecessary parsing of the > body of the message. Initial performance tests show that Synapse can > provide service mediation 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 > > ABOUT THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION > > goes here > > -- > Paul Fremantle > VP/Technology, WSO2 and OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair > > http://bloglines.com/blog/paulfremantle > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com >
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