Smilehouse OpenSyncro 2.0 review

OpenSyncro is an extensible, lightweight enterprise application integration tool

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OpenSyncro is an extensible, lightweight enterprise application integration tool. Smilehouse OpenSyncro runs on the Apache Tomcat application server and has a Web browser interface for setting up and maintaining component based integration processes.

Its features include built-in data converters from CSV tables and other text based data formats to XML, support for XSL Transformations, accessing files on FTP servers, and Web Services connectors to Smilehouse Workspace for data import/export.

OpenSyncro can be extended with components for connecting to ERP/CRM systems such as the SAP Business One and HansaWorld.

What's New in This Release:
New features:

Asynchronous remote Pipe execution with a persistent Pipe Execution Queue
OpenSyncro can now queue up multiple remote Pipe execution requests in the database, processing them in the order of reception.
Prevents running multiple instances of the same Pipe simultaneously.
Option to automatically resume the processing of Pipe execution requests at OpenSyncro webapp startup.

Pipe List view:

Display information about the last execution of each Pipe: start time, end time, duration, final status and name of the user who started the Pipe
Pipes currently running are highlighted.
New Clone button for making copies of Pipes.
Pipe Editor now shows the Pipe status, start time, end time and duration after the execution has finished.
New option to send email notification when a Pipe execution aborts without an error.
HTTPS support for HTTPSource and HTTPDestination components.
HTTPDestination now supports sending SOAP messages.

Improvements:

Improved IteratingXMLFileSource: now it is possible to iterate over multiple root level elements.
XSLT20Converter and XSLTConverter XSLT script's xsl:message texts are now written to Transfer log. Makes it convenient to create custom log messages about data the Pipe is processing, for example "Conversion successful for sales order #1234, customer #5555" or "Unknown discount code 'XYZ' detected, aborting".
FTPSource and FTPDestination: New option to select charset encoding of the transferred files.

Important bugfixes:

When adding a new entry to Transfer log all the Pipe's previous log entries were queried from the database, which eventually lead to excessive use of system resources.
Warning messages in Transfer log were deleted in dynamic logging mode if the Pipe execution did not fail with an error.
Deleting a Pipe did not correctly remove the Pipe's Transfer log messages, which caused an error when "Clear Transfer Log" button was pressed.