"After nearly two years of development, the open source Apache Synapse enterprise service bus (ESB) is ready for prime time with its 1.0 milestone release.
"ESBs enable various applications and components to communicate with each other in a predictable way for service-oriented architecture (SOA). With the 1.0 release, Apache Synapse has gone beyond its initial roadmap and is providing more functions and more performance than had originally been anticipated..."
