[ANN] Apache Synapse 1.1 released

[Paul Fremantle <pz...@gmail.com>]

The Apache Synapse team is pleased to announce the project is
releasing 1.1of the Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Apache Synapse is a fast, easy-to-use and Apache Licensed Open Source ESB.

Apache Synapse offers a wide range of connectivity, including HTTP/S, JMS,
(S)FTP, SOAP,
WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Security. The project has been designed to allow
administrators to
support advanced functionality such as load-balancing, throttling, and
failover without writing code.

The new Apache Synapse 1.1 release includes many enhancements based on
feedback from users, including:
    * Apache VFS based file transport - supports File System, FTP, SFTP,
JAR, ZIP, TAR, GZIP, Mime
    * Scheduled Task support makes it simple to run repetitive tasks
    * XQuery mediator - simplifies XML transformation with the XQuery
standard
    * POJO Command mediator - allows the creation of message-independent
mediation logic
    * DB Report and DB Lookup mediators - support message augmentation and
database logging
    * Cache and Throttle mediators/enhancements - improve performance and
manage load on existing services
    * Split/Clone/Aggregate mediators - support batch processing of large
messages
    * Improved logging and tracing support

With asynchronous support for HTTP and HTTPS, Apache Synapse has very high
scalability under load,
supporting thousands of concurrent connections even with limited threads.
Combined with streaming XML support,
Apache Synapse has class-leading performance results.

The Apache Synapse code and binaries are available from the website at
http://ws.apache.org/synapse

Thanks
The Apache Synapse Team