Synapse

The ability to mimic service behavior even before they are implemented - mocking - enables service consumer developers and testers to parallelize their efforts without having to wait for service implementation to complete. Service simulation also provides a light-weight alternative to building expensive reference environments.

A new tutorial by Upul Godage describes how to use Apache Synapse to mock Web services for the purpose of development and testing.

In this article by Hiranya Jayathilaka, he illustrates Apache Synapse support for the Financial Information eXchange protocol (FIX).

This article by Ruwan Linton is the second of a series of articles on Apache Synapse. In this series, you will learn what Synapse is, how it works, and how you can use it to solve common enterprise problems. You will understand some of the advanced features of Synapse, how you can extend it, and also some of its limitations.

This case study by Ruwan Linton and Asankha Perera describes, a proof of concept for a government organization to expose two repositories (one that is accessible as an EJB and the other as a Web Service), as a single composite service to allow merging of the results in order to be sent to the caller removing any possible duplicates.

In this case study, Asankha Perera , Software Architect and Product Manager of WSO2 ESB, describes using WSO2 ESB and WSO2 WSAS to overcome challenges faced during a legacy modernization effort in the health-care sector.

How many standards does service-oriented architecture (SOA) need? Are there standards SOA could live without? What's working in SOA development and what's not? In the second part of this interview with Michael Meehan, Paul Fremantle, co-founder and vice president of WSO2 Inc., takes a coder's eye view of SOA.

In this presentation, recorded at the recent Grails Exchange event in London (organized by Skills Matter), Paul Fremantle, co-founder of WS02, shows you how Groovy can be used inside a lightweight SOA framework - Apache Synapse - to make it easier and simpler to manage REST, SOAP and other network communications. He looks at how the combination of simple Groovy scripting inside a micro-broker like Synapse can be used to manage load-balancing, failover, versioning and other useful stuff.