Who am I? I am Asankha C. Perera and I consult through my partnership AdroitLogic. Since April 2006, I have been actively involved with the Apache Software Foundation, and have contributed immensely to the Apache Synapse Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) project, from getting it through the Apache incubator, the Apache Web Services project and finaly as a Top Level Project (TLP) of the Apache Software Foundation. I am a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of the Apache Synapse, Web Services and HttpComponents projects. Incidentally, I have written most of the core code of Apache Synapse ESB, including its highly acclaimed non-blocking http/s transports with the help of the Apache HttpComponents community. I have developed the Synapse/Axis2 - JMS (1.0.x/1.1), Mail(POP3, IMAP, SMTP) and VFS file (s/ftp, local, CIFS, Zip/tar/gz etc) transports and the abstract transport framework used to write new transports for these two projects. As the initial Architect and Product Manager of the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), I have been instrumental in building it on top of the Apache Synapse engine, and supplementing it with additional management and monitoring support via JMX. Apache Synapse now has a wide user base, due to its simplicity and ease of use, which is supported by its high performance capabilities that even beats other open source and proprietary alternatives([1], [2], [3]). Thus it has even been embedded into at least one of the leading network appliances for SOA, with more to follow. |
