Apache Synapse Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) - 3.0.1 Release Notes - Dec 2017

1. Overview
    The Apache Synapse ESB is a robust, lightweight and highly scalable and distributed
    Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). It supports SOAP Web services as well as Legacy services over
    transports such as JMS, Apache VFS File systems, Mail etc, and SOAP, REST/POX, plain text
    and binary message payloads. (Please see http://synapse.apache.org for more details)

    Apache Synapse graduated from the Apache Incubator on the 2nd of January 2007, and the first
    Synapse 1.0 was released on the 11th of June 2007. On the 20th of December 2007, Synapse was
    accepted as a top level project (TLP) under the Apache Software Foundation.

2. Installation Prerequisites 

    Apache Synapse requires a J2SE runtime of version 1.6.0_23 or later. Running the samples also
    requires Apache Ant 1.7.x or later. Building Synapse from source requires JDK 1.6.0_23, and
    Apache Maven 3.2.x or later.

3. Quick start
    Please see the docs/userguide/quick_start.html

4. Building the Samples
    Please see the documents docs/userguide/samples.html and docs/userguide/samples/setup/index.html

5. Synapse configuration language
    Please see the document docs/userguide/config.html

6. Extending Synapse
    Please see the document /docs/userguide/extending.html

7. Frequently asked questions

  * How can I change the default logging level of Synapse?
    Edit the lib/log4j.properties and set the line "log4j.category.org.apache.synapse=INFO" to
    "log4j.category.org.apache.synapse=DEBUG" and restart Synapse.

  * If you get an error related to WS-Security or when using it, check to ensure that your JDK
    uses the "Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files". These could be downloaded online and
    refer to the associated documentation for instructions on how to install it to your JDK.

8. Reporting Problems

    Please use the Apache JIRA system (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNAPSE) to report issues
    You may also join the:
        synapse-dev mailing  list by sending email to dev-subscribe@synapse.apache.org
        synapse-user mailing list by sending email to user-subscribe@synapse.apache.org

9. New in Version 3.0.1

    This is a patch release which contains minor bug fixes and upgrades in libraries like axis2,
    commons-collections, etc.