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Firstly in the words of Dave Chappell one of the founders of Synapse and the author of the book Enterprise Service Bus

This project (Synapse) is related to ESB, but it is not in itself an ESB. What Synapse brings to the table is a mediation framework that allows users to get in the middle between service requesters and providers and perform various tasks including transformation and routing and that helps to promote loose coupling between services

 

The distinction David makes goes to the heart of both questions. First, Synapse is not a full ESB in the most common sense of the term. Secondly, because the design of Apache Synapse is different from that of Apache ServiceMix, the two solutions have different capabilities and limitations.

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Lastly, it is also worth noting that the ServiceMix Team are working with the Synapse community to add JBI support to Synapse, so ServiceMix and Synapse could work together and integrate nicely with each other using JBI; deploying Synase as a JBI component within ServiceMix's JBI container allowing it to integrate with other JBI components such as smart routers or BPEL engines etc.