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Leading SOA Vendors Announce Synapse Project to Develop Web Service Mediation Framework; Blue Titan, Infravio, IONA, Sonic Software and WSO2 Join Forces to Create Open-Source Service Broker Based on Apache AXIS2COLOMBO, Sri Lanka --(Business Wire)-- Aug. 22, 2005 -- WSO2, a company started by key leaders of the Apache Web Services Project, today announced the creation of Synapse, a new project tasked with creating a Web service mediation framework. The project proposal has been submitted to the Apache Software Foundation "incubator" under the Web Services project. Synapse is an open source implementation of a Web service mediation framework and components for use in developing and deploying SOA infrastructures. Synapse provides a framework to intermediate between two or more Web Services, allowing users to introduce transformation and routing, promote loose coupling between services, and support greater reliability and resiliency. Additional details about Synapse are available on the Apache Software Foundation Incubator site at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SynapseProposal. WSO2 is joined by a list of leading companies in the Web Services and ESB spaces, including Blue Titan, IONA, Infravio and Sonic Software. These companies will draw on their industry expertise and leadership positions to build a set of components that work together with Axis2 and other Apache / open source projects to create a flexible transformation, management and routing system. To seed this project, Infravio will donate code from its X-Broker product. "We are pleased to work with industry leaders on the mediation aspects of Web Services," said Paul Fremantle, vice president of technology at WSO2. "Synapse is another significant step towards our objective of creating the best possible Web Services platform in Apache." "The emergence of an open source Web service mediation project under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation and its successful model for achieving wide-spread adoption represents a major step forward for the evolution of Web Services," said Dave Chappell, vice president and chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software, and author of the O'Reilly ESB book. "Synapse provides the ideal open, community-based environment for establishing a common, interoperable mediation framework for Web Services, and it will be influential in driving adoption of SOA principles in the industry at large." "Our donation of X-Broker code to Synapse reflects our continuing commitment to open standards and open source development," said Miko Matsumura, vice president of technology at Infravio. "We are excited to be working with such a high quality group of companies and individuals. Our primary focus is SOA Registry and this project ensures our customers an open, compatible and complementary run time environment." "Companies are increasingly interested in leveraging the benefits of open source software to support their SOA initiatives," said Eric Newcomer, CTO, IONA. "We're excited that ObjectWeb's Celtix open source ESB will contribute to Synapse, the Apache incubator project to develop an open source mediation framework. There are many technologies required to deploy a successful SOA, and the Synapse community clearly understands these requirements." "We view the development of open technologies as critical to SOA adoption and are excited to be working with industry leaders on the creation of Synapse," said Frank Martinez, CTO and chairman of Blue Titan Software. "Blue Titan believes mediation models and frameworks enable customers to design, deploy and scale SOAs in real-world heterogeneous environments. Synapse will be an open source technology that will help customers be successful with their SOA deployments while leveraging the standards-compliance, interoperability and Web Services focus offered by Apache Axis2." "One year after the launch of ObjectWeb's ESB initiative, we are very happy to see that open source is becoming increasingly popular amongst the vendors of integration solutions," said Jean-Pierre Laisne, ObjectWeb Chairman of the Board and Linux & Open Source Initiative Manager with Bull. "We encourage projects and communities to find synergies and work together, and will work to make ObjectWeb instrumental in this respect." About Blue Titan Software Blue Titan Software, the services networking company, helps enterprises deploy and manage their service-oriented architectures by enabling IT to control, share and scale services and applications. Business innovation can therefore be driven across the distributed enterprise in a timely, manageable, and future-ready manner. Founded in 2001 by enterprise software veterans, renowned business technologists and leading investors, Blue Titan Software is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Fortune 500 customers include British American Tobacco, Citigroup, Yahoo!, and Pfizer. About Infravio, Inc. Infravio, Inc. is a leading provider of SOA technologies based on open software and standards. Founded in 1999, Infravio has deep expertise through award-winning Fortune 1000 customer projects. Infravio X-Registry Platform(TM) provides SOA builders with visualization, design time, run time, and change governance across the lifecycle. It features the patent pending Service Delivery Contracts(TM) to improve the configurability and agility of services. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Infravio is backed by venture capital firms, Walden International and Crystal Ventures, as well as NetIQ Corp. (Nasdaq: NTIQ). For more information, please call 1.408.861.3000, email [email protected], or visit http://www.infravio.com. About IONA For more than a decade, IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix(R) products. Artix(TM), IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization's common infrastructure components. IONA's sponsorship of the ObjectWeb Celtix open source ESB is a natural extension of the company's history of solving integration problems by leveraging open standards and distributed architectures. IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com. About ObjectWeb Founded in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a consortium of leading companies and research organizations from around the world who have joined forces to produce next generation of Open Source Middleware. ObjectWeb's goal is to provide Real-Time Enterprises with independent solutions which combine quality and robustness at the best possible performance/cost ratio. ObjectWeb targets alternative solutions to proprietary products for e-business, ESB, data connectivity, grid computing, and enterprise messaging. Based on Open Standards, ObjectWeb's middleware includes application servers, components, frameworks and tools. About Sonic Software Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), a new communication and integration infrastructure that supports the enterprise requirements of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic's technology delivers the scalability, security, continuous availability and management capabilities necessary to connect, integrate and control distributed, mission critical business processes. Over 1,000 customers use Sonic products to achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to ever-changing business needs. Sonic Software is an independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a US$360+ million global software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at http://www.sonicsoftware.com, or by phone at +1-781-999-7000 or 1-866-GET-SONIC. About WSO2 WSO2 is a new startup company building open source Web services middleware platforms. Founded by pioneers in Web services and open source, WSO2 engineers contribute heavily to many key Apache Web services projects. In addition to building key components in Apache, WSO2 is building integrated Web services platforms which will offer industry leading performance and convenience for customers. WSO2's business model is to sell support for the software it helps build in open source. For more information, see http://www.wso2.com/. About Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products. For more information on The Apache Software Foundation, please see http://www.apache.org/ |
