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In this series, you will learn what Synapse is, how it works, and how you can use it to solve common problems in the enterprise. You will understand some of the advanced features of Synapse, how you can extend it, and also some of its limitations.

open source enterprise service bus (ESB) release announcement from ServiceMix, and the ESB-like Apache Synapse Web Services Mediation Framework project announcement. For those that are counting, this brings the number of open source ESB (and like) announcements this summer to five. Earlier announcements came from Iona (Celtix project), Sun (Java System Enterprise Service Bus (Java ESB)), and Mule.

Called Synapse, the Apache-sponsored project aims to define code for a distributed web services intermediary, to handle connectivity, transformation and routing of messages as they flow between service providers and consumers.

It appears as though the Apache ESB project, Synapse, is moving forward. According to InternetNews, Blue Titan, Infravio, WSO2, Sonic and Iona are all supporting it.

Synapse will be a robust, lightweight implementation of a highly scalable and distributed service broker / ESB based on Web services specifications.