June 2006
elemental links: Open Source ESB (and ESB-like) announcements: ServiceMix and Apache Synapse
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.
August 2005
Synapse to spark web services connections
(via)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.
SynapseProposal - Incubator Wiki
(via)Synapse will be a robust, lightweight implementation of a highly scalable and distributed service broker / ESB based on Web services specifications.
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