After 6 months of development Apache Synapse [1] development team proudly released Synapse 1.2 In addition many bug fixes and improvement toward better stability, Synapse 1.2 supports Financial Information eXchange (FIX) [2] and Hessian binary web service protocol [3] as message format and transport protocl. Synapse is a fast and efficient message mediator which can facilitate integration message oriented systems.

Among other features, following items are most important changes in Synapse 1.2

• WS-Reliable Messaging support with WSO2 Mercury

• Support for re-usable database connection pools for DB report/lookup mediators

• Support for GZip encoding and HTTP 100 continue

• Natural support for dual channel messaging with WS-Addressing

• Cluster aware sticky load balancing support

• Non-blocking streaming of large messages at high concurrency with constant memory usage

• Support for an ELSE clause for the Filter mediator

• Ability to specify XPath expressions relative to the envelope or body

• Support for separate policies for incoming/outgoing messages

• Support for a mandatory sequence before mediation

Kudos to Synapse team for this new release.