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+<document>
+    <properties>
+        <title>Apache Synapse - Deployment Guide</title>
+    </properties>
+    <body>
+        <section name="Contents">
+            <ul>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="#Platform_requirements">Platform requirements</a>
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="#Overview_of_available_deployment_options">Overview of available deployment options</a>
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="#Stand-alone_deployment">Stand-alone deployment</a>
+                    <ul>
+                        <li>
+                            <a href="#Using_the_standard_binary_distribution">Using the standard binary distribution</a>
+                        </li>
+                        <li>
+                            <a href="#Using_Maven_to_build_a_custom_distribution">Using Maven to build a custom distribution</a>
+                        </li>
+                    </ul>
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="#WAR_deployment">WAR deployment</a>
+                </li>
+            </ul>
+        </section>
+        <section name="Platform requirements" id="Platform_requirements">
+
+            <p>
+                Synapse requires Java 1.5 or higher and has been tested on Java runtime environments
+                from Sun, IBM and Apple. Note that the recommended Java version is 1.6. Synapse is
+                used on various operation systems, including Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows and AIX,
+                as well as mainframe environments. The recommended operation system for production use
+                is Linux since it offers a wider range of options to tune the TCP/IP stack. This is
+                important to optimize the performance of the NIO HTTP transport.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                When selecting the environment for deployment, the following known issues should be taken into account:
+            </p>
+            <ul>
+                <li>
+                    The <tt>synapse.bat</tt> and <tt>synapse.sh</tt> scripts included in the binary
+                    distribution use the <tt>-server</tt> option which is not supported by IBM's JRE.
+                    This problem can be easily solved by manually editing these scripts to
+                    remove the unsupported <tt>-server</tt> option. See
+                    <a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNAPSE-454">SYNAPSE-454</a>
+                    .
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    In the past several issues related to subtle concurrency problems have been reported
+                    with the non-blocking HTTP transport (which is the recommended HTTP implementation
+                    for Synapse) when used on more &quot;exotic&quot; platforms. While this has been
+                    improved it is recommended to thoroughly test the HTTP transport before deploying
+                    Synapse in a production environment based on these platforms. Please don't hesitate
+                    to report any issues using JIRA or by posting a message on the mailing list.
+                </li>
+            </ul>
+        </section>
+
+        <section name="Overview of available deployment options" id="Overview_of_available_deployment_options">
+
+            <p>Synapse can be deployed in two different ways:</p>
+            <ul>
+                <li>Stand-alone, i.e. as an independently managed Java process.</li>
+                <li>
+                    As a J2EE application (WAR) deployed into a simple servlet container (e.g. Tomcat)
+                    or a full-featured J2EE application server.
+                </li>
+            </ul>
+            <p>
+                Since Synapse doesn't rely on any container API, the features offered are the same in
+                both deployment scenarios, with very few exceptions:
+            </p>
+            <ul>
+                <li>
+                    There is a minor issue that prevents classpath resources from being used in a
+                    WAR deployment. See <a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNAPSE-207">SYNAPSE-207</a>
+                    .
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    When deployed as a WAR file, Synapse can be configured with the standard Axis2
+                    servlet based HTTP transport: while the recommended HTTP implementation for Synapse
+                    is the NIO HTTP transport, there might be situations where it is preferable or
+                    mandatory to use the HTTP protocol implementation of the application server.
+                </li>
+            </ul>
+            <p>
+                In some scenarios Synapse is used to proxy services that are deployed themselves on
+                an application server. In these cases it would be interesting to deploy Synapse on
+                the same application server and use an in-VM transport instead of HTTP to communicate
+                with these services. Note that for the moment no production-grade implementation of
+                this type of transport exists yet for Axis2, but this might change in the future.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                Since the features offered are almost the same, the differences between the two
+                deployment options are mainly related to packaging and operational considerations:
+            </p>
+            <ul>
+                <li>
+                    Many IT departments prefer deploying J2EE applications than managing stand-alone
+                    Java processes, because this allows them to leverage the management and monitoring
+                    facilities offered by the application server.
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    If the use case relies on JNDI resources such as JMS connection factories,
+                    JDBC data source and transactions it might be easier to set up and configure these
+                    resources when Synapse is deployed directly on the application
+                    server that hosts these resources.
+                </li>
+            </ul>
+        </section>
+
+        <section name="Stand-alone deployment" id="Stand-alone_deployment">
+            <subsection name="Using the standard binary distribution" id="Using_the_standard_binary_distribution">
+                <p>
+                    The easiest way to get started with a stand-alone deployment is using the standard
+                    binary distribution ZIP or tarball (see <a href="download.html">download.html</a>).
+                    It already contains everything that is needed to run Synapse stand-alone and you
+                    only need to customize it according to your requirements:
+                </p>
+                <ul>
+                    <li>
+                        Place your mediation configuration in <tt>repository/conf/synapse-config</tt>
+                        directory.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Place any additional files such as WSDL files, endpoint definitions, etc.
+                        referenced by your configuration in the <tt>repository</tt> directory.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Customize <tt>repository/conf/axis2.xml</tt>
+                        to enable and disable transports according to your needs.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Add any additional libraries required by your mediation to the
+                        <tt>lib</tt>directory. Alternatively modify <tt>repository/conf/wrapper.conf</tt>
+                        to add directories and JAR files to the classpath.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Add any required modules to <tt>repository/modules</tt>.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        If necessary, modify <tt>lib/log4j.properties</tt> to configure logging.
+                    </li>
+                </ul>
+                <p>
+                    Since the standard binary distribution also contains samples and documentation,
+                    you might want to remove the following folders:
+                </p>
+                <ul>
+                    <li>
+                        <tt>docs</tt>
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        <tt>repository/conf/sample</tt>
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        <tt>samples</tt>
+                    </li>
+                </ul>
+                <p>
+                    The <tt>bin</tt> directory contains Unix and Windows scripts to run Synapse:
+                </p>
+                <ul>
+                    <li>
+                        <tt>synapse.sh</tt> and <tt>synapse.bat</tt> allow to run Synapse in non
+                        daemon mode.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        <tt>synapse-daemon.sh</tt> is a Sys V init script that can be used on Unix
+                        systems to start and stop Synapse in daemon mode.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        <tt>install-synapse-service.bat</tt> and <tt>uninstall-synapse-service.bat</tt>
+                        can be used on Windows to install Synapse as an NT service.
+                    </li>
+                </ul>
+            </subsection>
+            <subsection name="Using Maven to build a custom distribution" id="Using_Maven_to_build_a_custom_distribution">
+                <p>
+                    Building a custom Synapse package based on the standard binary distribution is a
+                    manual process and this has some drawbacks:
+                </p>
+                <ul>
+                    <li>
+                        The JAR files required to run Synapse must be selected manually and it is not easy to identify unused JARs
+                        that could be safely removed.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        The process is not suitable if there is a requirement for strict configuration management. In particular:
+                        <ul>
+                            <li>
+                                Because of the large number of JAR files, managing the artifacts using
+                                a source control repository is not practical.
+                            </li>
+                            <li>
+                                The process is not repeatable and there is no way to go back to a
+                                previous version of the artifacts.
+                            </li>
+                        </ul>
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        When upgrading to a newer version of Synapse (or when working with snapshot
+                        versions), it is necessary either to manually replace the JARs in the current
+                        package or to start again from a new version of the standard binary
+                        distribution.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        If Synapse needs to be deployed with slightly different configurations in
+                        multiple environments (e.g. test and production), the corresponding packages
+                        need to be prepared manually.
+                    </li>
+                </ul>
+                <p>
+                    Note that these problems not only arise in the development and maintenance phases
+                    of a project, but also when doing proof of concepts that you want to keep in a safe
+                    place for later reuse. One approach to overcome these difficulties is to use Maven
+                    to assemble a custom package. When used correctly, this approach solves all of the
+                    issues identified above. In particular Maven's dependency management together with
+                    the excellent <a class="externalLink" href="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/">assembly plugin</a>
+                    can be used to automatically select the relevant JARs to include and pull them
+                    from Maven repositories. The remaining artifacts required to assemble the package
+                    can then be easily stored in a source control repository.
+                </p>
+                <p>
+                    Synapse provides a Maven archetype that allows to set up this kind of project in
+                    only a few simple steps. To begin with, change to the directory where you want to
+                    create the project and issue the following command:
+                </p>
+                <div class="command">mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://synapse.apache.org</div>
+                <p>
+                    In case of problems, you can try to use the latest version of the archetype catalog:
+                </p>
+                <div class="command">mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/synapse/trunk/java/src/site/resources</div>
+                <p>
+                    Finally, if you have build Synapse from sources, you don't need to specify a
+                    catalog at all: the archetype is added automatically to the local catalog during
+                    the build.
+                </p>
+                <p>
+                    In any case, when prompted by Maven, select <tt>synapse-package-archetype</tt>
+                    for the Synapse version you want to use. In the next step enter the values for
+                    <tt>groupId</tt>, <tt>artifactId</tt> and <tt>version</tt> for your project. You
+                    will also be prompted for a package name. Since the archetype doesn't contain any source
+                    code, this value is irrelevant and you can continue with the default value.
+                </p>
+                <p>
+                    At this stage a Maven project has been created in a sub-directory with the same
+                    name as the <tt>artifactId</tt> specified previously. You should now customize this
+                    projects according to your needs:
+                </p>
+                <ul>
+                    <li>
+                        Add your mediation configuration to <tt>repository/conf/synapse-config</tt>
+                        directory.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Customize the dependencies in <tt>pom.xml</tt>. In particular if additional
+                        transports such as JMS are needed, add the required dependencies here. Additional
+                        Axis2 modules should also be added here.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Enable and configure additional transports in <tt>repository/conf/axis2.xml</tt>.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Place any other files referenced by mediation configuration into the
+                        <tt>repository</tt> directory.
+                    </li>
+                </ul>
+                <p>
+                    The project is built as usual with the following command:
+                </p>
+                <div class="command">mvn package</div>
+                <p>
+                    This will create a ZIP file (in the <tt>target</tt> directory) containing
+                    everything that is needed to run your custom Synapse configuration. You only
+                    need to extract it and use the appropriate script in the <tt>bin</tt>
+                    directory to start Synapse.
+                </p>
+            </subsection>
+        </section>
+        <section name="WAR deployment" id="WAR_deployment">
+            <p>
+                Synapse provides a standard WAR file that can be used to deploy mediation on a servlet
+                container or on a J2EE application server. Note that this WAR file is not part of the
+                downloadable distributions. It can be retrieved from the following location:
+            </p>
+            <ul>
+                <li>
+                    <a class="externalLink" href="http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/synapse/synapse-war/">http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/synapse/synapse-war/</a>
+                    for released versions.
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    <a class="externalLink" href="http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Synapse%20-%20Trunk/org.apache.synapse$synapse-war/">http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Synapse%20-%20Trunk/org.apache.synapse$synapse-war/
+                    </a>
+                    for snapshot versions.
+                </li>
+            </ul>
+            <p>
+                Customization of the Web application is similar to the stand-alone option, but the
+                default directory structure is different:
+            </p>
+            <ul>
+                <li>
+                    <tt>synapse.xml</tt> and <tt>axis2.xml</tt> are placed into the <tt>WEB-INF/conf</tt>
+                    directory. All other files referenced by your mediation should go to the
+                    <tt>WEB-INF/repository</tt>
+                    directory.
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    Additional libraries must be placed into the standard <tt>WEB-INF/lib</tt>
+                    directory.
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    Axis2 modules are located in <tt>repository/modules</tt>.
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    <tt>log4j.properties</tt> is located in <tt>WEB-INF/classes</tt>.
+                </li>
+            </ul>
+        </section>
+    </body>
+</document>
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+
+<!--
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+  ~  distributed with this work for additional information
+  ~  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  ~  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  ~  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  ~  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  ~  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  ~   * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  ~  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  ~  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  ~  under the License.
+  -->
+
+<document>
+	<properties>
+		<title>Apache Synapse - Extending Synapse</title>
+	</properties>
+	<body>
+			<div id="contentBox">
+				   <section name="Apache Synapse ESB - Extending Synapse">
+					<p>
+						Apache Synapse provides a number of extension points so that
+						users can plug-in custom developed code to extend the
+						functionality of the ESB. While the built-in mediators are sufficient to implement
+						most integration scenarios, sometimes it is very helpful to be able to deploy some custom code into the
+						service bus and make the solution simpler. Most Synapse APIs are in Java and
+						therefore the users looking to extend Synapse are expected to have a
+						decent knowledge and experience in Java programming.
+					</p>
+					</section>
+					<section name="Writing custom Mediator implementations">
+				
+					<p>
+						The primary interface of the Synapse API is the MessageContext
+						interface defined below. This essentially defines the per-message
+						context passed through the chain of mediators, for each and every
+						message received and processed by Synapse. Each message instance is
+						wrapped within a MessageContext instance, and the message context
+						is set with the references to the SynapseConfiguration and
+						SynapseEnvironment objects. The
+						<a href="apidocs/org/apache/synapse/config/SynapseConfiguration.html">SynapseConfiguration</a>
+
+						object holds the global configuration model that defines
+						mediation rules, local registry entries and other and configuration, while
+						the
+						<a href="apidocs/org/apache/synapse/core/SynapseEnvironment.html">SynapseEnvironment</a>
+
+						object gives access to the underlying SOAP implementation used -
+						Axis2. A typical mediator would need to manipulate the
+						MessageContext by referring to the SynapseConfiguration. However it
+						is strongly recommended that the SynapseConfiguration is not
+						updated by mediator instances as it is shared by all messages, and
+						may be updated by Synapse administration or configuration modules.
+						Mediator instances may store local message properties into the
+						MessageContext for later retrieval by successive mediators.
+						<br />
+					</p>
+					<h4>
+						<a class="externalLink"
+							href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/synapse/trunk/java/modules/core/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/MessageContext.java?view=markup">MessageContext
+							Interface
+						</a>
+					</h4>
+					<div class="xmlConf">package org.apache.synapse;
+
+import ...
+
+public interface MessageContext {
+
+    /**
+     * Get a reference to the current SynapseConfiguration
+     *
+     * @return the current synapse configuration
+     */
+    public SynapseConfiguration getConfiguration();
+
+    /**
+     * Set or replace the Synapse Configuration instance to be used. May be used to
+     * programatically change the configuration at runtime etc.
+     *
+     * @param cfg The new synapse configuration instance
+     */
+    public void setConfiguration(SynapseConfiguration cfg);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a reference to the host Synapse Environment
+     * @return the Synapse Environment
+     */
+    public SynapseEnvironment getEnvironment();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the SynapseEnvironment reference to this context
+     * @param se the reference to the Synapse Environment
+     */
+    public void setEnvironment(SynapseEnvironment se);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the value of a custom (local) property set on the message instance
+     * @param key key to look up property
+     * @return value for the given key
+     */
+    public Object getProperty(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * Set a custom (local) property with the given name on the message instance
+     * @param key key to be used
+     * @param value value to be saved
+     */
+    public void setProperty(String key, Object value);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the Set of keys over the properties on this message context
+     * @return a Set of keys over message properties
+     */
+    public Set getPropertyKeySet();
+
+    /**
+     * Get the SOAP envelope of this message
+     * @return the SOAP envelope of the message
+     */
+    public SOAPEnvelope getEnvelope();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the given envelope as the current SOAPEnvelope for this message
+     * @param envelope the envelope to be set
+     * @throws org.apache.axis2.AxisFault on exception
+     */
+    public void setEnvelope(SOAPEnvelope envelope) throws AxisFault;
+
+    /**
+     * SOAP message related getters and setters
+     */
+    public ....get/set()...
+
+}</div>
+					<p>
+						The MessageContext interface is based on the Axis2
+						MessageContext 	interface, and uses the Axis2 EndpointReference and
+						SOAPEnvelope classes/interfaces. The purpose of this interface is
+						to capture a message as it flows through the system. As you will
+						see the message payload is represented using the SOAP infoset.
+						Binary messages can be embedded in the Envelope using MTOM or SwA
+						attachments using the AXIOM object model.
+					</p>
+					<h4>
+						<a class="externalLink"
+							href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/synapse/trunk/java/modules/core/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/Mediator.java?view=markup">Mediator
+							interface
+						</a>
+					</h4>
+					<p>
+						The second key interface for mediator writers is the Mediator
+						interface:
+					</p>
+					<div class="xmlConf">package org.apache.synapse;
+
+import org.apache.synapse.MessageContext;
+
+/**
+ * All Synapse mediators must implement this Mediator interface. As a message passes
+ * through the synapse system, each mediator's mediate() method is invoked in the
+ * sequence/order defined in the SynapseConfiguration.
+ */
+public interface <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mediator </span>{
+
+    /**
+     * Invokes the mediator passing the current message for mediation. Each
+     * mediator performs its mediation action, and returns true if mediation
+     * should continue, or false if further mediation should be aborted.
+     *
+     * @param synCtx the current message for mediation
+     * @return true if further mediation should continue
+     */
+    public boolean mediate(MessageContext synCtx);
+
+    /**
+     * This is used for debugging purposes and exposes the type of the current
+     * mediator for logging and debugging purposes
+     * @return a String representation of the mediator type
+     */
+    public String getType();
+}</div>
+					<p>
+						A mediator can read and/or modify the message encapsulated in
+						the MessageContext in any suitable manner - adjusting the routing
+						headers or changing the message body. If the mediate() method
+						returns false, it signals to the Synapse processing model to stop
+						further processing of the message. For example, if the mediator is
+						a security agent it may decide that this message is dangerous and
+						should not be processed further. This is generally the exception as
+						mediators are usually designed to co-operate to rocess the message
+						onwards.
+					</p>
+					</section>
+					
+					<h3>
+						Leaf and Node Mediators, List mediators and Filter mediators
+					</h3>
+					<p>
+						Mediators may be Node mediators (i.e. these that can contain
+						child mediators) or Leaf mediators (mediators that does not hold
+						any	other child mediators). A Node mediator must implement the
+						org.apache.synapse.mediators.ListMediator interface listed below,
+						or extend from the
+						org.apache.synapse.mediators.AbstractListMediator.
+					</p>
+					<h4>
+						<a class="externalLink"
+							href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/synapse/trunk/java/modules/core/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/mediators/ListMediator.java?view=markup">The
+							ListMediator interface
+						</a>
+					</h4>
+					<div class="xmlConf">package org.apache.synapse.mediators;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+* The List mediator executes a given sequence/list of child mediators
+*/
+public interface ListMediator extends Mediator {
+    /**
+    * Appends the specified mediator to the end of this mediator's (children) list
+    * @param m the mediator to be added
+    * @return true (as per the general contract of the Collection.add method)
+    */
+    public boolean addChild(Mediator m);
+
+    /**
+    * Appends all of the mediators in the specified collection to the end of this mediator's (children)
+    * list, in the order that they are returned by the specified collection's iterator
+    * @param c the list of mediators to be added
+    * @return true if this list changed as a result of the call
+    */
+    public boolean addAll(List c);
+
+    /**
+    * Returns the mediator at the specified position
+    * @param pos index of mediator to return
+    * @return the mediator at the specified position in this list
+    */
+    public Mediator getChild(int pos);
+
+    /**
+    * Removes the first occurrence in this list of the specified mediator
+    * @param m mediator to be removed from this list, if present
+    * @return true if this list contained the specified mediator
+    */
+    public boolean removeChild(Mediator m);
+
+    /**
+    * Removes the mediator at the specified position in this list
+    * @param pos the index of the mediator to remove
+    * @return the mediator previously at the specified position
+    */
+    public Mediator removeChild(int pos);
+
+    /**
+    * Return the list of mediators of this List mediator instance
+    * @return the child/sub mediator list
+    */
+    public List getList();
+}</div>
+					<p>
+						A ListMediator implementation should call super.mediate(synCtx)
+						to process 	its sub mediator sequence. A FilterMediator is a
+						ListMediator which executes its sequence of sub mediators on
+						successful outcome of a test condition. The Mediator instance which
+						performs filtering should implement the FilterMediator interface.
+					</p>
+					<h4>
+						<a class="externalLink"
+							href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/synapse/trunk/java/modules/core/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/mediators/FilterMediator.java?view=markup">FilterMediator
+							interface
+						</a>
+					</h4>
+					<div class="xmlConf">package org.apache.synapse.mediators;
+
+import org.apache.synapse.MessageContext;
+
+/**
+ * The filter mediator is a list mediator, which executes the given (sub) list of mediators
+ * if the specified condition is satisfied
+ *
+ * @see FilterMediator#test(org.apache.synapse.MessageContext)
+ */
+public interface <span style="font-weight: bold;">FilterMediator </span>extends ListMediator {
+
+    /**
+     * Should return true if the sub/child mediators should execute. i.e. if the filter
+     * condition is satisfied
+     * @param synCtx
+     * @return true if the configured filter condition evaluates to true
+     */
+    public boolean test(MessageContext synCtx);
+}</div>
+				</div>
+				<section name="Writing custom Configuration implementations for mediators">
+					<p>
+						You may write your own custom configurator for the Mediator
+						implementation 	you write without relying on the Class mediator or
+						Spring extension for its initialization. You could thus write a
+						MediatorFactory implementation 	which defines how to digest a custom
+						XML configuration element to be used to create and configure the
+						custom mediator instance. A MediatorSerializer implementation
+						defines how a configuration should be serialized back into
+						an XML configuration. The custom MediatorFactory &amp;
+						MediatorSerializer 	implementations and the mediator class/es must be bundled in a JAR
+						file conforming to the J2SE Service Provider model (See the
+						description for Extensions below for more details and examples) and
+						placed into the SYNAPSE_HOME/lib folder, so that the Synapse
+						runtime could find and load the definition. Essentially this means
+						that a custom JAR file must bundle your class implementing the
+						Mediator interface, and the MediatorFactory implementation class and
+						contain two text files named
+						&quot;org.apache.synapse.config.xml.MediatorFactory&quot; and
+						&quot;org.apache.synapse.config.xml.MediatorSerializer&quot; which
+						will contain the fully qualified name(s) of your MediatorFactory
+						and MediatorSerializer implementation classes. You should also
+						place any dependency JARs into the same lib folder so that the
+						correct classpath references could be made.
+						The MediatorFactory interface listing is given below, which you
+						should implement, and its getTagQName() method must define the fully qualified
+						element of interest for custom configuration. The Synapse
+						initialization will call back to this MediatorFactory instance through the
+						createMediator(OMElement elem) method passing in this XML element,
+						so that an instance of the mediator could be created utilizing the
+						custom XML specification and returned. See the ValidateMediator and
+						the ValidateMediatorFactory classes under modules/extensions in the
+						Synapse source distribution for examples.
+					</p>
+					<h4>
+						<a class="externalLink"
+							href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/synapse/trunk/java/modules/core/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/config/xml/MediatorFactory.java?view=markup">The
+							MediatorFactory interface
+						</a>
+					</h4>
+					<div class="xmlConf">package org.apache.synapse.config.xml;
+
+import ...
+
+/**
+ * A mediator factory capable of creating an instance of a mediator through a given
+ * XML should implement this interface
+ */
+public interface MediatorFactory {
+    /**
+     * Creates an instance of the mediator using the OMElement
+     * @param elem
+     * @return the created mediator
+     */
+    public Mediator createMediator(OMElement elem);
+
+    /**
+     * The QName of this mediator element in the XML config
+     * @return QName of the mediator element
+     */
+    public QName getTagQName();
+}</div>
+					<h4>
+						<a class="externalLink"
+							href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/synapse/trunk/java/modules/core/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/config/xml/MediatorSerializer.java?view=markup">The
+							MediatorSerializer interface
+						</a>
+					</h4>
+					<div class="xmlConf">package org.apache.synapse.config.xml;
+
+import ...
+
+/**
+ * Interface which should be implemented by mediator serializers. Does the
+ * reverse of the MediatorFactory
+ */
+public interface MediatorSerializer {
+
+    /**
+     * Return the XML representation of this mediator
+     * @param m mediator to be serialized
+     * @param parent the OMElement to which the serialization should be attached
+     * @return the serialized mediator XML
+     */
+    public OMElement serializeMediator(OMElement parent, Mediator m);
+
+    /**
+     * Return the class name of the mediator which can be serialized
+     * @return the class name
+     */
+    public String getMediatorClassName();
+}</div>
+				</section>
+				<section name="Configuring mediators">
+					<p>
+						Mediators could access the Synapse registry to load resources
+						and configure the local behaviour. Refer to the Spring mediator and
+						Script mediator implementations for examples on how this could be
+						achieved.
+					</p>
+					<h4>
+						Loading of Extensions by the Synapse runtime
+					</h4>
+					<p>
+						Synapse loads available extensions from the runtime classpath
+						using the
+						<a class="externalLink"
+							href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Service%20Provider">J2SE
+							Service Provider model
+						</a>
+						. This essentially iterates over the available JAR files, for a META-INF/services directory within each file,
+						and looks for a text file with the name org.apache.synapse.config.xml.MediatorFactory
+						which contains a list of fully qualified classname that implement
+						the above interface, listing each class in a separate line. e.g. The
+						built-in synapse-extensions.jar contains the following structure
+					</p>
+					<div class="xmlConf">synapse-extensions.jar
+    /META-INF/services
+        org.apache.synapse.config.xml.MediatorFactory
+        org.apache.synapse.config.xml.MediatorSerializer
+    /... the implementation classes as usual...</div>
+				</section>
+				
+				
+				<section name="Writing Synapse Observers">
+					<p>
+						A Synapse observer is developed by either implementing the
+						org.apache.synapse.config.SynapseObserver interface or by
+						extending the org.apache.synapse.config.AbstractSynapseObserver
+						class. A Synapse observer is notified by the Synapse configuration
+						when new elements are added to the configuration and
+						when existing elements are removed from the configuration. The
+						following event handlers are available to the Synapse observer implementations.
+					</p>
+					<div class="xmlConf"> public void sequenceAdded(Mediator sequence);
+ public void sequenceRemoved(Mediator sequence);
+ public void entryAdded(Entry entry);
+ public void entryRemoved(Entry entry);
+ public void endpointAdded(Endpoint endpoint);
+ public void endpointRemoved(Endpoint endpoint);
+ public void proxyServiceAdded(ProxyService proxy);
+ public void proxyServiceRemoved(ProxyService proxy);
+ public void startupAdded(Startup startup);
+ public void startupRemoved(Startup startup);
+ public void eventSourceAdded(SynapseEventSource eventSource);
+ public void eventSourceRemoved(SynapseEventSource eventSource);</div>
+					<p>
+						The AbstractSynapseObserver provides default implementations to
+						all these event handlers. It simply logs any received events.
+					</p>
+					<p>
+						In situations where the custom code has access to the
+						SynapseConfiguration class observers can be directly registered
+						with the SynapseConfiguration by using
+						the registerObserver(SynapseObserver o) method. Otherwise
+						SynapseObserver implementations
+						can be defined in the synapse.properties file which resides in the
+						SYNAPSE_HOME/lib directory. The following example shows how two observers are
+						registered with the Synapse configuration using the
+						synapse.properties file.
+					</p>
+					<div class="xmlConf">synapse.observers=test.LoggingObserverImpl, test.SimpleObserverImpl</div>
+				</section>
+				
+        <section name="Scheduled Tasks">
+            <p>
+                A scheduled task is a custom developed piece of Java code that
+                is scheduled in the ESB to execute periodically. A scheduled task
+                must implement the org.apache.synapse.task.Task
+                interface. This interface has a single 'execute' method. Once scheduled the
+                execute method is called by Synapse periodically.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                Synapse also comes with a built-in task implementation known as
+                the	MessageInjector.This task can be used to inject messages into
+                the service bus	periodically. Refer	sample 300 to see how to use the
+                MessageInjector task.
+            </p>
+         </section>
+	</body>
+</document>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
+<!--
+  ~  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  ~  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  ~  distributed with this work for additional information
+  ~  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  ~  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  ~  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  ~  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  ~  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  ~   * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  ~  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  ~  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  ~  under the License.
+  -->
+<document>
+    <properties>
+        <title>FAQ</title>
+    </properties>
+    <body>
+        <section name="Apache Synapse FAQs">
+            <p>
+                Welcome to Apache Synapse FAQs.
+            </p>
+        </section>
+
+
+
+        <section name="General(GeneralApache Synapse questions - Non technical)">
+
+            <ol>
+                <li>
+                    What is Apache Synapse?
+                    <ul>
+                        <li>
+                            Apache Synapse is a lightweight and high-performance Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
+                        </li>
+                    </ul>
+                </li>
+                <p/>
+
+                <li>
+                    What makes Apache Synapse unique?
+                    <ul>
+                        <li>
+                            Apache Synapse is fast and able to handle thousands of concurrent connections
+                            with constant memory usage. It comes with a rich set of mediators to
+                            support almost any integration scenario out of the box. It is also easily
+                            extensible and highly customizable.
+                        </li>
+                    </ul>
+                </li>
+                <p/>
+
+            </ol>
+        </section>
+
+
+
+    </body>
+</document>

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+<!--
+  ~  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  ~  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  ~  distributed with this work for additional information
+  ~  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  ~  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  ~  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  ~  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  ~  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  ~   * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  ~  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  ~  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  ~  under the License.
+  -->
+<document>
+    <properties>
+        <title>Apache Synapse - Installation Guide</title>
+    </properties>
+    <body>
+        <section name="Apache Synapse Installation Guide">
+            <p>
+                Welcome to Apache Synapse Installation Guide. This guide provides information on,
+            </p>
+            <ul>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="#Prerequisites">Prerequisites for Installing Apache Synapse</a>
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="#Distribution">Distribution Packages</a>
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="#Installing">Installing Synapse</a>
+                    <ul>
+                        <li>
+                            <a href="#InstallingLinux">Installing on Linux/Unix</a>
+                        </li>
+                        <li>
+                            <a href="#InstallingWin">Installing on MS Windows</a>
+                        </li>
+                    </ul>
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="#Building">Building Synapse Using the Source Distribution</a>
+                </li>
+            </ul>
+        </section>
+
+        <section name="Prerequisites for Installing Apache Synapse" id="Prerequisites">
+            <p>
+                You should have following pre-requisites installed on your system to run Apache
+                Synapse.
+            </p>
+            <table border="2">
+                <tbody>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            <a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp">Java SE
+                                Development Kit
+                            </a>
+                        </td>
+                        <td>
+                            1.6.0_23 or higher (For instructions on setting up the JDK on different
+                            operating systems, visit<a
+                                href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html">
+                            Java homepage.
+                        </a>)
+                            <p/>
+                        </td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">Apache Ant</a> - To run Synapse samples
+                        </td>
+                        <td>
+                            <p>
+                                To compile and run the sample clients, an Ant installation is
+                                required.
+                                Ant 1.7.0 version or higher is recommended.
+                            </p>
+                        </td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            <a href="http://maven.apache.org/">Apache Maven</a> - To
+                            build Synapse from the source
+                        </td>
+                        <td>
+                            To build Apache Synapse from its source distribution, you will need
+                            Maven 2.2.0 or later.
+                        </td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            Memory
+                        </td>
+                        <td>
+                            No minimum requirement - A heap size of 1GB is generally
+                            sufficient to process typical SOAP messages. Requirements may vary
+                            with larger message size and on the number of messages processed
+                            concurrently.
+                        </td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            Disk
+                        </td>
+                        <td>
+                            No minimum requirement. The installation will require ~75 MB
+                            excluding space allocated for log files and databases.
+                        </td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>
+                            Operating System
+                        </td>
+                        <td>
+                            Linux, Solaris, MS Windows - XP/2003/2008 (Not fully tested on Windows
+                            Vista or Windows 7). Since Apache Synapse is a Java application, it will
+                            generally be possible to run it on other operating systems with a
+                            JDK 1.6.x runtime. Linux/Solaris is recommended for production
+                            deployments.
+                        </td>
+                    </tr>
+                </tbody>
+            </table>
+        </section>
+
+        <section name="Distribution Packages" id="Distribution">
+            <p>
+                The following distribution packages are available for <a
+                    href="http://synapse.apache.org/download.html">download</a>.
+            </p>
+            <ol>
+                <li>
+                    Binary Distribution: Includes binary files for both Linux and
+                    MS Windows operating systems, compressed into a single a zip file. Recommended
+                    for normal users.
+                </li>
+                <p/>
+                <li>
+                    Source Distribution: Includes the source code for both Linux and MS Windows
+                    operating systems, compressed into a single zip file which can be used to build
+                    the binaries. Recommended for advanced users.
+                </li>
+            </ol>
+        </section>
+
+        <section name="Installing Synapse" id="Installing">
+            <p>
+                The following guide will take you through the binary distribution installation
+                on different platforms.
+            </p>
+            <subsection name="Installing on Linux/Unix" id="InstallingLinux">
+                <ol>
+                    <li>
+                        <a href="http://synapse.apache.org/download.html">Download</a> Apache
+                        Synapse binary distribution.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Extract the downloaded zip archive to where you want Synapse installed
+                        (e.g. into /opt).
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to your Java home using the export
+                        command or by editing /etc/profile, and add the JAVA_HOME/bin
+                        directory to your PATH.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Execute the Synapse start script or the daemon script from the bin
+                        directory of your Synapse installation.
+                        <br/>
+                        i.e., ./synapse.sh OR ./synapse-daemon.sh start
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Synapse is now ready to accept messages for mediation.
+                    </li>
+                </ol>
+            </subsection>
+
+            <subsection name="Installing on MS Windows" id="InstallingWin">
+                <ol>
+                    <li>
+                        <a href="http://synapse.apache.org/download.html">Download</a> Apache
+                        Synapse binary distribution.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Extract the downloaded zip archive to where you want Synapse installed
+                        (e.g. into C:\Synapse).
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to your Java home using the set
+                        command or Windows System Properties dialog, and add the JAVA_HOME\bin
+                        directory to your PATH.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Execute the Synapse start script or the service installation script from
+                        the bin directory of your Synapse installation.
+                        <br/>
+                        i.e., synapse.bat OR install-synapse-service.bat
+                    </li>
+                    <li>
+                        Synapse is now ready to accept messages for mediation.
+                    </li>
+                </ol>
+
+            </subsection>
+        </section>
+
+        <section name="Building Synapse Using the Source Distribution" id="Building">
+            <p>
+                Apache Synapse build is based on <a href="http://maven.apache.org/"> Apache
+                Maven 2</a>. Hence, it is a prerequisite to have Maven (version 2.2.0 or later)
+                installed in order to build Synapse from the source distribution. Instructions on
+                installing Maven 2 are available on the <a href="http://maven.apache.org/"> Maven
+                website</a>. Follow these steps to build Synapse after setting up Maven 2.
+            </p>
+            <ol>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="http://synapse.apache.org/download.html">Download</a>
+                    the source
+                    distribution, which is available as a zip archive. All the necessary
+                    build scripts are included with this distribution.
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    Extract the source archive to a directory of your choice.
+                </li>
+                <li>
+                    Run <strong>mvn clean install</strong> command inside that directory to build
+                    Synapse. Note that you will require a connection to the Internet for the Maven
+                    build to download dependencies required for the build.
+                </li>
+            </ol>
+            <p>
+                This will create the complete set of release artifacts including the binary
+                distribution in the modules/distribution/target/ directory which can be installed
+                using the above instructions.
+            </p>
+        </section>
+    </body>
+</document>