Yoav Thanks for the very good feedback.
I have included all of it in the updated document posted below. Paul *DRAFT :: HOLD FOR RELEASE :: DRAFT :: HOLD FOR RELEASE :: DRAFT :: HOLD FOR RELEASE ::* * * *Contact:* Paul Fremantle +1 646 290 8050 Apache Web Services Project Management Committee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF APACHE SYNAPSE v.1.1* * * *Improved Open Source ESB makes integration simpler and faster* *FOREST HILL MD – **12 November 2007** – *The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) Web Services Project today announced the release of Apache Synapse v.1.1, the second full release of the Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). An easy-to-use, Open Source, lightweight ESB with first class XML and Web Services management capabilities, Apache Synapse v.1.1 was developed to form the basis of a flexible, standards-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Following on from the v1.0 release in June 2007, the Apache Synapse team has made significant strides: making Apache Synapse more robust, flexible and capable. Responding to users needs and requests, the Apache Synapse team have made a significant set of enhancements as well as increasing the reliability, interoperability and robustness of the project. "Apache Synapse v.1.1 adds significant capabilities for integration including simple connectors for File, FTP, and databases that join the already first class support for HTTP, SOAP and JMS", said Paul Fremantle, Apache Web Services PMC Member and Vice President of Technical Sales at WSO2 Inc. "Apache Synapse is one of the fastest and most robust ESBs available. With a focus on simplicity, ease-of-use and a small memory footprint, Apache Synapse is a great choice for a Service Oriented infrastructure." *OPEN SOURCE ESB* Without requiring any coding, Apache Synapse v.1.1 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 created a new category of lightweight ESBs that offer a simpler, more productive and pragmatic approach to SOA. "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," explained Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst at 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." * * *NEW FOR VERSION 1.1* The key features of the new Apache Synapse 1.1 release are: - Support for scheduling and running regular tasks at set times of day or week, or on a repeating basis - Support for a wide variety of file systems including FTP, SFTP, WebDav, HTTP, ZIP and JAR files - Addition of new mediators for message augmentation using relational databases - Improved support for asynchronous, non-blocking HTTP – provides scalability under high load - XQuery capabilities for simple XML transformation and data extraction - Service caching can reduce load on backend resources and protect against denial of service attacks - Improved support for the "POJOs" – allowing users to create mediation logic without needing to understand the Synapse programming model. *POWERFUL MEDIATION * Apache Synapse v.1.1 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. Apache Synapse v.1.0supports 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. "In the complex world of Web Services, with lots of WS-* specifications, Apache Synapse is a very welcome addition," said Tijs Rademakers, Apache Synapse committer and Software Architect at Atos Origin. "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." *HIGHLY PERFORMANT* Apache Synapse v.1.1 is one of the few Open Source ESB solutions that offers a completely asynchronous, non-blocking model. This means that Apache Synapse can scale up to handle thousands of connections without running out of threads. Apache 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 v.1.1 can be downloaded from the Apache Synapse website at http://ws.apache.org/synapse *About the Apache Web Services Project* With a nearly two dozen sub-projects in development and led by a thirty-member strong Project Management Committee, the Apache Web Services Project provides innovative, community-driven, Open Source Service Oriented Architecture solutions under the auspices of The Apache Software Foundation. For more information on Apache Web Services, visit http://ws.apache.org/ *About the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)* Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of Open Source software projects, including Apache HTTP Server -- the world's most popular Web server software for more than a decade. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors' potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products. For more information, please see http://www.apache.org/ # # #
