Apache Synapse 1.0

Apache Synapse is a mediation framework for Web Services. Synapse allows messages flowing through, into, or out of an organization to be mediated. Synapse, incidentally, is pronounced "sine-apse", and not "sin-apse".
Main features:
- A streamlined configuration model and a new XML syntax
- Proxy Services (service mediation) and Message mediation
- Concept of Endpoints
- Integration of a Registry and dynamic refresh of resources as well as rules used to mediate
- Support for http and JMS transports
- Support for WS-Reliable Messaging and WS-Security through WS-Policies
- Script mediator supporting all BSF scripting languages
- Support for error handling and recovery
- Support for WS-RM sequences
- Many built in mediators
- Maven 2 based build process
- Many samples and a built-in Axis2 server to try out and experiment with samples (Samples includes WS-Security, JMS POX/Text messages, Script mediation and many more samples which can be run out of the box)
- Enhanced documentation
Enhancements:
- Significant improvements including non-blocking HTTP and HTTPS transports, better samples, and better documentation.